- Hardcover: 307 pages
- Publisher: Scholarly Book Services Inc (Jun 27 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0814328806
- ISBN-13: 978-0814328804
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 753 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,182,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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As the first full-scale study of Benjamin's practice of autobiography in any language, Gerhard Richter's admirable work performs a major scholarly service. -- Peter Fenves, Northwestern University
Gerhard Richter's Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography breaks new ground in the burgeoning field of Benjamin studies. -- David E. Wellbery, Johns Hopkins University
Gerhard Richter's Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography is not merely the most extensive and insightful treatment of Benjamin's autobiographical writings. It also offers a challenging reading of Benjamin's writings as a whole, a reading that serves as an important corrective to any facile appropriation of portions of Benjamin's corpus. -- Michael Jennings, Princeton University
This text is magisterial. . . . [It] renews ones amazement at the power and beauty of Benjamins thinking. I rate this work very highly. -- James Rolleston, Duke University
Gerhard Richter's Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography breaks new ground in the burgeoning field of Benjamin studies. -- David E. Wellbery, Johns Hopkins University
Gerhard Richter's Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography is not merely the most extensive and insightful treatment of Benjamin's autobiographical writings. It also offers a challenging reading of Benjamin's writings as a whole, a reading that serves as an important corrective to any facile appropriation of portions of Benjamin's corpus. -- Michael Jennings, Princeton University
This text is magisterial. . . . [It] renews ones amazement at the power and beauty of Benjamins thinking. I rate this work very highly. -- James Rolleston, Duke University
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An analysis of the political concepts in Walter Benjamin's autobiographical writings as enacted in the language of the body.
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