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"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"
Walter 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).
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Verso Trade
- : 0.844
- : December 2007
- : 235mm X 159mm X 27mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Esther Leslie (Translator); Ursula Marx (Editor); Gudrun Schwarz (Editor); Michael Schwarz (Editor); Erdmut Wizisla (Editor); Walter Benjamin
- : Hardback
- : 1207
- : English
- : 838/.91207
- : 311
- : illustrated throughout in colour & black & white