Walter Benjamin : the pearl diver / Peter E. Gordon.
| Author/creator | Gordon, Peter Eli author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2026] |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | 203 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Pearl diver |
| Series | Jewish lives Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.) |
| Contents | Prologue. The final days -- A Berlin childhood -- Youth and utopia -- From war to peace -- Angelus novus -- The wanderer -- Paris years -- Epilogue. The flight south. |
| Abstract | "Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is widely considered one of the most creative cultural critics of the twentieth century. Esteemed for his literary acumen and capacious imagination, he developed a unique style of criticism--his friend Hannah Arendt called it pearl-diving--that sought out fragments of redemption in the ruins of bourgeois civilization. Award-winning author Peter E. Gordon tells Benjamin's story in a vivid and poetic style, inviting the reader to look beyond the image of Benjamin as a tragic figure of German-Jewish history and portraying him as a complex personality of unique and multifaceted gifts. Tracing Benjamin's life from his Berlin childhood to his Parisian exile, through the romanticism of the youth movements and the conflicts over modernism and Marxism, Gordon brings Benjamin to life." -Dust jacket |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| ISBN | 9780300216868 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0300216866 |