Walter Benjamin: Berlin Childhood around 1900

Cover: 9781836740148 | Berlin Childhood around 1900 | Walter Benjamin | Buch | Englisch

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Composed in exile in the 1930s and published as a whole only after his death, the miniatures that make up Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood are crystallized images of childhood experienced in a city later surrendered to fascism. No ordinary autobiography, the book is a Proustian experiment in memory and a meditative tour of the iconic spaces of a city irretrievably lost to the adult. Instead of details of family and friends, these miniatures evoke the sensory richness of childhood in images of the squares and courtyards, the parks and monuments of Berlin, the child’s schoolbooks and the gloomy flats of elderly relatives. As Benjamin’s friend Theodor Adorno writes in his afterword, ‘the images the book brings up into a disturbing proximity are not idyllic and not contemplative. The shadow of Hitler’s Reich falls across them. Dreamlike, they unite that horror with something that has long existed.’

This new translation includes an introduction by Antonia Hofstätter, highlighting the way this nearly century-old work resonates with contemporary readers and inspires hope by providing access to strata of experience not governed by instrumentality and domination.

Über den Autor

WALTER BENJAMIN (1892–1940) was a German-Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist associated with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Among his best-known works are ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’ and essays on Kafka, Proust, Baudelaire and the storyteller. His masterwork, the Arcades Project, which intended to present a cultural theory of modernity through a study of nineteenth-century Paris, remained unfinished at his death.

SHIERRY WEBER NICHOLSEN is a psychoanalyst practicing in Seattle. She has translated several of Theodor W. Adorno’s works, including Notes to Literature, and is the author of Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno’s Aesthetics.

ANTONIA HOFSTÄTTER works on early critical theory and aesthetics. She has published widely on the thought of Theodor W. Adorno and is one of the editors of the Journal of Adorno Studies.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translator’s Preface
Introduction
Foreword

Loggias
Kaiser Panorama
Victory Column
The Telephone
Butterfly Hunt
Tiergarten
Having Come Too Late
Boys’ Books
Winter Morning
Steglitzer, Corner of Genthiner
Market Hall
Fever
The Otter
Pfaueninsel and Glienicke
News of a Death
Blumeshof 12
Winter Evening
Crooked Street
The Stocking
The Mummerehlen
Hiding Places
A Ghost
Accidents and Crimes
Colors
The Sewing Box
The Moon
Two Brass Bands

Appendix
The Carousel
Awakening of the Sex Drive

Afterword: Theodor W. Adorno

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	20. & 21. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781836740148
ISBN-10:	183674014X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Benjamin, Walter
Übersetzung:	Nicholsen, Shierry Weber
Hersteller:	Verso Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	LOGOS EUROPE, 9 Rue Nicholas Poussin, F-17000 La Rochelle, contact@logoseurope.eu
Maße:	199 x 132 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Walter Benjamin
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.11.2025
Gewicht:	0,206 kg