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Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual Biography (Kritik: German Literary and Cultural Studies Series)
by Witte, Bernd: Rolleston, James (translator)
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0814320171
- ISBN 13
- 9780814320174
- Seller
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Detroit, MI, U.S.A.: Wayne State University Press, 1991. First American Edition. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. First published in 1985 in German, this is an interpretive biography of Walter Benjamin, the quintessential European intellectual between the two world wars; historian, philosopher, literary critic, student of language and culture, and journalist, the independent scholar was forever trying to define himself and his time as products of a tradition in crisis; his life and work were one, a chronicle of the modern European intellectual and a mirror of the era; includes many photographs (green cloth with black lettering, a bright, clean, tight copy)
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- House of Our Own Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003005
- Title
- Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual Biography (Kritik: German Literary and Cultural Studies Series)
- Author
- Witte, Bernd: Rolleston, James (translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0814320171
- ISBN 13
- 9780814320174
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Place of Publication
- Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1991
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