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NEW DOCUMENTS
Recent Writings by Walter Benjamin
Conceived by an anthropologist of art and culture as a collection of recent texts by Walter Benjamin written between 1986 and the present, this book includes interviews by Beti Zerovc, Maxine Kopsa and Milo Rau as well as lectures including "Lenin and Coca-Cola," "The Unmaking of Art" and "The Making of Americans."
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
LA Review of Books
Rachel Wetzler
To claim the name of a dead cultural hero is a coy obstruction. In presenting an impossibility as fact, however, Walter Benjamin: Recent Writings makes clear that it plays by another set of rules, eliding the boundaries between historical fact and fiction.
FORMAT: Hbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 160 pgs. LIST PRICE: U.S. $30.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $40 ISBN: 9781927354117 PUBLISHER: New Documents AVAILABLE: 3/31/2014 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA ONLY
Conceived by an anthropologist of art and culture as a collection of recent texts by Walter Benjamin written between 1986 and the present, this book includes interviews by Beti Zerovc, Maxine Kopsa and Milo Rau as well as lectures including "Lenin and Coca-Cola," "The Unmaking of Art" and "The Making of Americans."
