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Walter Benjamin for Children: An Essay on his Radio Years

Posted By: DZ123
Walter Benjamin for Children: An Essay on his Radio Years

Jeffrey Mehlman, "Walter Benjamin for Children: An Essay on his Radio Years"
English | 1993 | ISBN: 0226518655 | PDF | pages: 124 | 2.6 mb

In light of the legendary difficulty of Walter Benjamin's works, it is a strange and intriguing fact that from 1929 to 1933 the great critic and cultural theorist wrote–and broadcast–numerous scripts, on the order of fireside chats, for children. Invited to speak on whatever subject he considered appropriate, Benjamin talked to the children of Frankfurt and Berlin about the destruction of Pompeii, an earthquake in Lisbon, and a railroad disaster at the Firth of Tay. He spoke about bootlegging and swindling, cataclysm and suicide, Faust and Cagliostro. In this first sustained analysis of the thirty surviving scripts, Jeffrey Mehlman demonstrates how Benjamin used the unlikely forum of children's radio to pursue some of his central philosophical and theological concerns.

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