Matters of Life
A Review of Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14645485 |
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| Authors | Eva Friedlander (0000-0001-7791-6461, corresponding author), Eli Friedlander |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 147-153 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01903659-3653764 |
| OpenAlex | W2530966703 |
| Language | EN |
This essay reflects on the questions introduced by Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings's biography Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life. In particular, it considers how the biography addresses the difficult problem of drawing together a unity of life and writings in Benjamin's existence. It further seeks to assess how the conception, implicit in their book, of the relation of writing and life relates to Benjamin's own understanding of the nature of the craft of biography
Art history · Biography · Craft · Epistemology · Life writing · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Highly cited | No |
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