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'Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life' tag archive

Short life, long book

Esther LeslieRP ( )

Review | RP186 Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 2014. 768 pp., £25.00 pb., 978 0 67405 186 7. Many reviews of books on or by Walter Benjamin begin with a capsule description of the key events in his life. It goes something like this. Born in […]

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Esther Leslie, Stefano Pippa, Tom Eyers, Mark Kelly, Andrew McGettigan, Matthew Charles, Adam Knowles, Richard Braude and Raymond GeussRP 186 (Jul/Aug 2014)

Many reviews of books on or by Walter Benjamin begin with a capsule description of the key events in his life. It goes something like this. Born in 1892 into a well-off assimilated German Jewish family in Berlin, Walter Benjamin failed to gain an academic career, just about getting by, instead, through journalism and handouts […]

ReviewsAdam Knowles, Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War, Andrew McGettigan, Are the Lips a Grave? A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex, Barnaby Haran, David J. Blacker, E. P. Thompson, Esther Leslie, Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power, Frederic J. Schwartz, Gestern Morgen - Über die einsamkeit kommunistischer Gespenster und die Rekonstruktion der Zukunft, Howard Eiland, Justin Clemens, Lynne Huffer, Management and the Universities, Marcelo Hoffman, Mark Kelly, Matthew Charles, Michael Jennings, Psychoanalysis is an Anti-Philosophy, Raymond Geuss, Renew Marxist Art History, Richard Braude Bini Adamczak, Stefano Pippa, The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame, Tom Eyers, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life, Warren Carter, Warren Montag, Warwick University Ltd: Industry
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