ISBN10: 0226042375, ISBN13: 9780226042374, [publisher: The University of Chicago Press] Hardcover One of the most compelling 20th-century thinkers, Benjamin's writings assume a crucial role in current debates over the interaction of art, culture, and meaning. His correspondence, published here in English for the first time, reveals the evolution of his most powerful and difficult ideas. Here are letters to Scholem, Arendt, Rilke, Adorno, Brecht and others, that range from student days, to exile in Paris, to his last days attempting to escape Nazi persecution. A moving document that enhances the legacy of this towering intellectual figure. Indexes. 651p.
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1994]