# Introducing Walter Benjamin

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- Book: [Introducing Walter Benjamin](https://www.bookquiver.com/alex-coles/introducing-walter-benjamin) ([Introducing Walter Benjamin.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alex-coles/introducing-walter-benjamin.md))
- Authors: [Alex Coles](https://www.bookquiver.com/alex-coles), [Andrzej Klimowski](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrzej-klimowski), [Howard Caygill](https://www.bookquiver.com/howard-caygill), [Richard Appignanesi](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-appignanesi)
- Publisher: icon_books
- ISBN: 978-18-4046-165-7
- Pages: 176
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This biography of Walter Benjamin encompasses political, philosophical and artistic events of the 20th century. He was born into a Jewish family in Berlin, lived in Moscow and Paris while engaging with leading modernists artists, and committed suicide after fleeing the Nazis. This biography of Walter Benjamin encompasses political, philosophical and artistic events of the 20th century. He was born into a Jewish family in Berlin, lived in Moscow and Paris while engaging with leading modernists artists, and committed suicide after fleeing the Nazis.