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Early Writings (1910-1917) (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,350
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Early Writings (1910-1917) (Hardcover)

Walter Benjamin; Edited by Howard Eiland

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Walter Benjamin became a published writer at the age of seventeen. Yet the first stirrings of this most original of critical minds penned during the years in which he transformed himself from the comfortable son of a haute-bourgeois German Jewish family into the nomadic, uncompromising philosopher-critic we have since come to appreciate have until now remained largely unavailable in English. "Early Writings, 1910-1917" rectifies this situation, documenting the formative intellectual experiences of one of the twentieth century's most resolutely independent thinkers.

Here we see the young Benjamin in his various roles as moralist, cultural critic, school reformer, and poet-philosopher. The diversity of interest and profundity of thought characteristic of his better-known work from the 1920s and 30s are already in evidence, as we witness the emergence of critical projects that would occupy Benjamin throughout his intellectual career: the role of the present in historical remembrance, the relationship of the intellectual to political action, the idea of truth in works of art, and the investigation of language as the veiled medium of experience.

Even at this early stage, a recognizably Benjaminian way of thinking comes into view a daring, boundary-crossing enterprise that does away with classical antitheses in favor of the relentlessly-seeking critical consciousness that produced the groundbreaking works of his later years. With the publication of these early writings, our portrait of one of the most significant intellects of the twentieth century edges closer to completion.

General

Imprint: The Belknap Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2011
First published: May 2011
Authors: Walter Benjamin
Editors: Howard Eiland
Dimensions: 213 x 146 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With printed dust jacket
Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-04993-2
Languages: English
Subtitles: German
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN: 0-674-04993-4
Barcode: 9780674049932

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