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Walter Benjamin : a critical life

by Howard Eiland, Michael W. Jennings

A comprehensive biography of the influential twentieth-century intellectual Walter Benjamin, analysing his life, his times during turbulent European history, and his major philosophical and literary works.

Accession 26081 ISBN 9780674051867 Publisher Belknap
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