Berlin Childhood Around 1900 by Benjamin, Walter

Berlin Childhood Around 1900 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781836740148)

Vendor: Walter Benjamin
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Format: Hardcover
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Berlin Childhood Around 1900 by Benjamin, Walter

Berlin Childhood Around 1900

$24.95
Berlin Childhood Around 1900 by Benjamin, Walter

Berlin Childhood Around 1900

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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A new translation of philsopher Walter Benjamin's moving and groundbreaking memoir of growing up.

Completed in exile in Paris, as the second World War was dawning, Walter Benjamin looks back at the city of his birth at the beginning of the century. The book is both a sensory memoir of childhood as well as a tour of the iconic spaces of city. These are 'expeditions into the depths of memory', moving through vignettes of domestic settings and classrooms, city squares, parks and streets. The memories of childhood merge with a city that is about to disappear into darkness.

As his friend, Adorno, wrote, the work is 'illuminated by lightning flashes of immediate remembrance . . .the images this book unearths and brings strangely near are not idyllic and not contemplative. Over them lies the shadow of the Third Reich. And through them dreamily runs a shudder at the long forgotten.'

Author: Walter Benjamin
ISBN-10: 183674014X
ISBN-13: 9781836740148
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2025
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
By Walter Benjamin
By Walter Benjamin
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Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator and philosopher. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama. In 1940, he was in Spain, fleeing the Nazis and en route to the United States, when Franco's government cancelled his visa. Expecting repatriation, he took his own life.

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