{"product_id":"berlin-childhood-around-1900-walter-benjamin","title":"Berlin Childhood around 1900 (Walter Benjamin)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eCompleted in exile in Paris, as the second World War was dawning, Walter Benjamin looks back at the city of his birth at the beginning of the century. The book is both a sensory memoir of childhood as well as a tour of the iconic spaces of city. These are 'expeditions into the depths of memory', moving through vignettes of domestic settings and classrooms, city squares, parks and streets. The memories of childhood merge with a city that is about to disappear into darkness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs his friend, Adorno, wrote, the work is 'illuminated by lightning flashes of immediate remembrance . . .the images this book unearths and brings strangely near are not idyllic and not contemplative. Over them lies the shadow of the Third Reich. And through them dreamily runs a shudder at the long forgotten.'\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/b\u003e (1892-1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator and philosopher. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of \u003ci\u003eIlluminations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Arcades Project\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of German Tragic Drama.\u003c\/i\u003e In 1940, he was in Spain, fleeing the Nazis and en route to the United States, when Franco's government cancelled his visa. Expecting repatriation, he took his own life.\n\u003cb\u003eTheodor Adorno\u003c\/b\u003e was director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1959 until his death in 1969. His works include \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Wagner\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eNegative Dialectics\u003c\/i\u003e; and (with Max Horkheimer) \u003ci\u003eDialectic of Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTowards a New Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 144 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65820705685853,"sku":"K098538694","price":16.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9853869400001A.jpg?v=1788628777","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/berlin-childhood-around-1900-walter-benjamin","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}