Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography
, by Richter, Gerhard- ISBN: 9780814330838 | 0814330835
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/1/2002
Although Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is considered one of the most significant writers and theorists in twentieth-century Western culture, his enigmatic sense of the political has eluded definition. His later work in particular stages a perpetual but little understood confrontation with German fascism.