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Walter Benjamin

A vibrant portrait of Walter Benjamin

Posted on 5th October 2015 by Camilla

Howard Eiland and Michael W Jennings, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (Harvard University Press, 2014), £25 At 700 pages, Walter Eiland and Michael W Jennings’s Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life is the most complete biography available of this fascinating writer… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin and the classical Marxist tradition

Posted on 2nd January 2009 by ISJ

Chris Nineham’s article on “Benjamin’s Emergency Marxism” was less concerned with assessing the work under review, Esther Leslie’s book Walter Benjamin, than with assessing the work of her subject, Benjamin himself.1 My purpose here is not to re-review the book,… Continue Reading →

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Benjamin’s emergency Marxism

Posted on 24th June 2008 by ISJ

A review of Esther Leslie, Walter Benjamin (Reaktion, 2007), £10.95 There has been a growing fascination on the left for the often cryptic work of Walter Benjamin ever since he was first widely published in the 1960s. In 1968 Berlin… Continue Reading →

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