On Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life. Sponsored by City Lights Books
A whole week of activities celebrating the new authoratative biography of Walter Benjamin by Howard Eiland, MIT Literature, and Michael Jennings, Prof German, Princeton University, with Lindsay Waters, Ed Humanities, Harvard University Press. Went to conversation 5-7 p, at UCBerkeley with the authors, editors and Harvard University Press representative. Biography has been writtten, not as a montage but to elucidate the critical writings and will prove an essential reference and research tool for scholars of Walter Benjamin was the conclusion. ( Early life, all was rejected and he was tortured by no acclaim and no publisher for his work. Then, the protean ability of him to change viewpoints, etc through his life. ) ” Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings have given us a portrait of this elusive but paradigmatic thinker that deserves to be ranked among the few truly indispensable intellectual biographies of the modern era. I am ...