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DescriptionNo Marketing Blurb Reviews"The most important German aesthetician and literary critic of the twentieth century." - George Steiner Praise for The Arcades Project: "A towering literary event." - New York Times "Benjamin is important because of his insight into the cultural consequences of capitalism, an insight that gives us a style of thinking about the now inescapable culture of consumerism," - Harper's "A magnificent opus." - J. M. Coetzee, Guardian" Author descriptionWalter Benjamin was born in Germany in 1892 and died in Spain in 1940. His other books include Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and, with Verso, One-Way Street and The Origin of German Tragic Drama. Esther Leslie teaches cultural studies at Birkbeck College, London. She is the author of Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism (Pluto, 2000) and Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde (Verso, 2001). |