Walter Benjamin

Norbert Bolz,Willem Van Reijen

Walter Benjamin
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Country
United States
Published
1 June 2013
Pages
120
ISBN
9781573924290

Walter Benjamin

Norbert Bolz,Willem Van Reijen

Benjamin’s writings are a curious mixture of esoteric, sometimes mystical Jewish thought, artistic modernism, and unorthodox Marxism. He united an apocalyptic vision of history with a concern for the material, productive basis of art. Fascinated by tradition, yet a radical spokesman for the new technological media, steeped in high German philosophy, but a champion of the proletariat, Benjamin was in turn philologist, literary critic, political commentator, and philosopher of history. Bolz and van Reijen proceed from the standpoint that Benjamin’s thought was shaped by his attempt to connect extremes - to make the theological idea of salvation fruitful for political thought. Then, they go on to structure Benjamin’s important clusters of themes in light of the radical consequences of this intention.

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