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Walter Benjamin’s Notebook

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From Walter Benjamin: 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts:   In 1927, on the occasion of a several-months-long visit to Paris, Walter Benjamin began taking notes on the Parisian Arcades for his most ambitious book project…. With her introduction to a selection of these handwritten notes, Nikola Doll describes how the author attempted “to integrate the principle … Continue reading Walter Benjamin’s Notebook →

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Walter Benjamin’s Notebook

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Actually it’s an address book… Sad story behind it, though. Walter Benjamin was a German Jewish literary critic and philosopher, who fled from the Nazi regime during World War II. This was his address book from time spent in Paris, where he associated with a lot of other refugees before being arrested and imprisoned for … Continue reading Walter Benjamin’s Notebook →