Walter Benjamin: Pearl Diver Author: Peter E. GordonISBN-13: 978-0-300-21686-8Publisher: Yale University PressGuideline Price: £16.99Interpreting an author’s work from their life is like judging fruits by their tree: in other words, the wrong way around. But their lives can be interesting and compelling on their own terms, and Walter Benjamin’s was one such. Besides being one of the most original philosophers of the 20th century, he was a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany for France in 1933 and died by suicide in 1940 to avoid deportation to the camps. Gordon’s new biography opens with an account of this death but...
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