WALTER BENJAMIN

Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane...

Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of his work in definitive translation, under the general editorship of Michael W. Jennings. This...

"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to flee the Nazis. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings in t...

Creo poder afirmar que la amistad develada en estas cartas implicaba un conocimiento relativamente profundo de sus respectivos trabajos, cuyos temas, por lo demás, se cruzaron en más de una ocasión. Benjamin y Auerbach fueron grandes misivistas, bella palabra que para la RAE todavía no existe. Sus cartas son el testimonio no solo de una amistad ...

Walter Benjamin became a published writer at the age of seventeen. Yet the first stirrings of...