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Description of  The Philology of Life: Walter Benjamin's Critical Program (Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory)

The Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hlderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjamins work as a whole. According to Benjamin, German literary history in the period roughly following the first World War was part of a wider crisis of historical experiencea life crisis to which Read more