THE USUAL qualification of Walter Benjamin as an inter-war Marxist cultural ... by somewhat grainy monochromatic copies of drawings by Paul Klee, whom Benjamin admired, The Storyteller is another wise ...

“Even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins,” wrote Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher, deep in the winter of 1939 as the Nazis advanced towards him in Pari ...

This Mortal Coil by Fay Bound Alberti is published by Oxford University Press. The Storyteller by Walter Benjamin is published by Verso on 23rd June. Superwoman: Work, Build and Don't Whine is on ...

Ferris, David. "'Truth is the Death of Intention': Benjamin's Esoteric Concept of Romanticism." Studies in Romanticism 31, (Winter, 1992). Gasche, Rodolphe. "The Sober Absolute: On Benjamin and the ...