Unpacking My Library by Walter Benjamin
90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
‘Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories.’
From intimate musings on his book collection, to a dream-like trip through the bustling streets of Marseille, each of these essays offers a compelling journey into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s most influential philosophers.
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The Fire Next Time
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The Driver's Seat
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Chess
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The House of Hunger
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
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The Burial of the Rats
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The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian
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The Daemon Lover
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
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Where Everything is Music
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Can Socialists be Happy?
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The Blazing World
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A Dog's Heart
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A Dill Pickle
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A Hunger-Artist
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Why I am a Stoic
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Transformation
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A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past
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Lamb to the Slaughter
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The New Dress
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Coal
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Secretary
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Thousand Cranes
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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
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The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels
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Night Flight
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A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint
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Horsie
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After Midnight
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Paris France
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The Rich Boy
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For Art and for Life
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Whatever is Rational is Tolerable
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The Story of an Hour
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Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
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Lady L.
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The Prose Edda
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Requiem
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Tristessa
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To Read and Dream
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Family Happiness
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Some Japanese Ghosts
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Lois the Witch
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The Umbrella
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The Country of the Pointed Firs
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No Coward Soul Is Mine
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Stan the Killer
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Closely Watched Trains
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The Broken Nest
Walter Benjamin was born on July 15, 1892 to a German-Jewish family in Berlin. He was educated at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg and the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. An essay on Goethe's Elective Affinities published in 1924 earned him swift recognition but he struggled to find a position to support himself and build on its success. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Benjamin fled to Paris and became a prominent critic of Hitler's regime. During this period he worked on his immense study of 19th century Parisian life known as The Arcades Project (which was posthumously published in unfinished form).Following the Nazi invasion of France Benjamin attempted to escape to the United States where a visa had been obtained for him.Trying to get through to neutral Portugal, Benjamin was prevented from crossing the Spanish border and committed suicide on September 27 1940.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241747261 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241747260 |
| Title | Unpacking My Library |
| Author | Walter Benjamin |
| Series | Penguin Archive |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2025-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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