Introducing Walter Benjamin by Howard Caygill

Introducing Walter Benjamin by Howard Caygill

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This biography of Walter Benjamin encompasses political, philosophical and artistic events of the 20th century. He was born into a Jewish family in Berlin, lived in Moscow and Paris while engaging with leading modernists artists, and committed suicide after fleeing the Nazis.

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Introducing Walter Benjamin by Howard Caygill

Follows the life and work of Walter Benjamin, tracing his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history, as well as his particular focus on the tension between Marxism and Zionism, and between word and image in modern art.
Howard Caygill is currently lecturer in the School of Economic and Social Studies at the University of East Anglia. He has previously been ESRC postdoctoral fellow at Balliol College, Oxford and British Academy postdoctoral fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.
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ISBN 13 9781840461657
ISBN 10 1840461659
Title Introducing Walter Benjamin
Author Howard Caygill
Series Introducing
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Icon Books
Year published 2000-10-01
Number of pages 176
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.