Berlin Childhood around 1900
$29.60
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2026
Summary
Berlin Childhood Around 1900: A Lost World in Miniature
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,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781836740148 |
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| ISBN-10: | 183674014X |
| Author: | Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Antonia Hofstatter |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
About The Author
Walter Benjamin
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.
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