Name: Coleccionismo (in Spanish)
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Author: Walter Benjamin
ISBN: 9788412479140

Type

Physical Book

Author

Walter Benjamin

Publisher

Godot Ediciones

Year

2022

Language

Spanish

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20x13 cm

ISBN13

9788412479140

Edited in

España

Synopsis "Coleccionismo (in Spanish)"

Benjamin fue el escritor de magníficas obras incompletas, ensayos muy pequeños, o libros que no llegaron a terminarse, como el famoso Libro de los pasajes. Benjamin nunca terminó ese famoso libro y su vida de ensayista fue por definición la persistencia en lo incompleto. No tuvo al libro completado como objeto final. No conocemos lo que habría podido ser El libro de los pasajes, lo imaginamos como lo que es, una colección de citas que siempre nos hace añorar la cita que no está, la observación que Benjamin no hizo.

Benjamin tiene además un texto muy famoso, sobre Eduard Fuchs, un gran coleccionista de su época. Coleccionaba grabados de la prensa política, las famosas caricaturas que arrancan con la Revolución Francesa, siguen y atraviesan todo el siglo xix. Lo interesante en este ensayo sobre Fuchs es que Benjamin encontró la fórmula que después todos los benjaminianos repetimos hasta el cansancio: Jamás existe un documento de cultura sin que sea al mismo tiempo un documento de barbarie.

Walter Benjamin

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Walter Benjamin was a prominent philosopher, literary critic, and art and history theorist born in Berlin, Germany. His work and critical thinking have had a profound influence on 20th century cultural studies.
Benjamin was born into a wealthy Jewish family and grew up in an intellectually stimulating environment. From an early age, he showed an interest in literature, music, and art.
In the 1920s, after serving in the German army during World War I, he joined the Frankfurt School, a circle of German intellectuals and social critics interested in transforming Marxist ideas. There, he met other thinkers like Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer who were major influences on his work and worldview.
Throughout his life, Benjamin was also deeply interested in politics and social issues. During the years of the Weimar Republic, he actively participated in the cultural and literary field. However, the rise of Nazism to power in 1933 forced him to leave Germany. He first went into exile in Paris and after the French occupation, Benjamin tried to escape to Spain to embark towards the United States, but was detained at the French-Spanish border. Faced with the imminent threat of being handed over to the German authorities, the author decided to end his life.

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