Walter Benjamin
The Pearl Diver
$30.55
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
30 May 2026
Summary
An accessible and authoritative biography of Walter Benjamin that guides the reader through the complexity of his intellectual legacy and the turbulence of his time
“A short, serene volume… . Gordon avoids treating his subject in allegorical terms, in part because Benjamin always resisted conscription into a story larger than his own.”—Anahid Nersessian, New Yorker
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) is widely considered one of the most creative cultural crit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300216868 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0300216866 |
| Author: | Peter E. Gordon |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 30 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 146mm x 210mm |
| Series: | Jewish Lives |
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“A short, serene volume… . Gordon avoids treating his subject in allegorical terms, in part because Benjamin always resisted conscription into a story larger than his own.”—Anahid Nersessian, New Yorker
“By reading Benjamin’s own texts against the grain of the hagiography that has come to surround him, Peter Gordon unwinds the myths, and in the most learned and informed fashion, gives us back the human being.”—Susan Buck-Morss, CUNY Graduate Center and Cornell University
Peter E. Gordon
Peter E. Gordon teaches social theory and philosophy at Harvard University. His books include Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization and A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity. He lives in Cambridge, MA.
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