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Unpacking My Library

By Walter Benjamin
Series: ERIS Gems
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Unpacking My Library by Walter Benjamin is a reflective and personal meditation on the author’s life as a book collector. With wit and erudition, Benjamin explores the unique relationship between collectors and their cherished objects, revealing the deeper mental and emotional climate of collecting.
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This thoughtful essay will especially appeal to bibliophiles, cultural critics, and anyone interested in the arts and the subtle dynamics between people and their collections.

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Unpacking My Library

One of the great cultural critics of the twentieth century offers a strikingly personal meditation on his career as a book collector and on the strange relations that spring up between objects and their owners.

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"I fully realise that my discussion of the mental climate of collecting will confirm many of you in your conviction that this passion is behind the times, in your distrust of the collector type. Nothing is further from my mind than to shake either your conviction or your distrust."

Walter Benjamin was one of the great cultural critics of the twentieth century. In Unpacking My Library, he offers a strikingly personal meditation on his career as a book collector and on the strange relations that spring up between objects and their owners. Witty, erudite and often moving, this book will resonate with bibliophiles of all kinds.

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ISBN: 9781912475841

Publisher: ERIS

Format: Book

Date Published: 01 August 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: ERIS

Audience: General / adult

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Width: 110.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 26

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Series: ERIS Gems Walter Benjamin

About the Author

Walter Benjamin (1892-1900) was a German Jewish writer whose critical and philosophical works – which include the essays “The Task of the Translator”, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” and “Theses on the Philosophy of History” – are among the most twentieth century’s most influential theoretical interventions.

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