Walter Benjamin’s Archive
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An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin’s personal manuscripts, images, and documents. The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, assortments of images, texts, and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas, and hopes, each of which was enthusiastically logged, systematized, and analyzed by their author. In this way, Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy. Intricate and intimate, Walter Benjamin’s Archive leads readers to the heart of his intellectual world, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author.
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Walter Benjamin. Walter Benjamin’s Archive
Walter Benjamin’s Archive
Walter Benjamin’s Archive. IMAGES, TEXTS, SIGNS. Translated by Esther Leslie. Edited by. Ursula Marx. Gudrun Schwarz. Michael Schwarz. Erdmut Wizisla
CONTENTS
Preface
1. Tree of Conscientiousness. Benjamin as Archivist
2. Scrappy Paperwork. Collecting and Dispersal
3. From Small to Smallest Details. Micrographies
4. Physiognomy of the Thingworld. Russian Toys
5. Opinions et Pensées. His Son’s Words and Turns of Phrase
6. Daintiest Quarters. Notebooks
7. Travel Scenes. Picture Postcards
8. A Bow Being Bent. Composing, Building, Weaving
9. Constellations. Graphic Forms
10. Rag Picking. The Arcades Project
11. Past Turned Space. Arcades and Interiors
12. Hard Nuts to Crack. Riddles, Brainteasers, Word Games
13. Sibyls. Mosaics in Siena
Bibliography and Abbreviations
About the book
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“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital. Everything that the big city has thrown away, everything it has lost, everything it has scorned, everything it has crushed underfoot he catalogues and collects. He collates the annals of intemperance, the capharnaum of waste. He sorts things out and selects judiciously: he collects like a miser guarding a treasure, refuse which will assume the shape of useful or gratifying objects between the jaws of the goddess of Industry.” This description is one extended metaphor for the poetic method, as Baudelaire practised it. Ragpicker and poet: both are concerned with refuse.
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