Howard Eiland

Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings—mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis, and a syncretistic theology—defy simple categorisation. And his mobile, often improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologisers. His writing career moved from the brilliant esotericism of his early writings through his emergence as a...