An Unfinished Project
Fredric Jameson, 3 August 1995
The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin 1910-1940
edited by Theodor Adorno and Manfred Jacobson, translated by Evelyn Jacobson.
Chicago, 651 pp., £39.95, May 1994,0 226 04237 5 Show More
edited by Theodor Adorno and Manfred Jacobson, translated by Evelyn Jacobson.
Chicago, 651 pp., £39.95, May 1994,
T.W. Adorno/Walter Benjamin: Briefwechsel 1928-40
edited by Henri Lonitz.
Suhrkamp, 501 pp., DM 64, April 1994,3 518 58174 0 Show More
edited by Henri Lonitz.
Suhrkamp, 501 pp., DM 64, April 1994,
“... Walter Benjamin was not a letter writer of the order of Lawrence or Flaubert, for whom the medium of the letter seems to fill a need, not for mere self-expression, but for some larger exercise of the personality in exasperation or enthusiasm, in that almost instinctive enlargement of reaction to things which others find in unmotivated physical activity ... ”
