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Archive of Walter Benjamin's Archive

    Verso Books
    29 August 2022
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    Cultural and Literary Theory: Verso Student Reading

    Our Cultural and Literary Theory reading for the academic year ahead: all 40% off until the end of September.

    Esther Leslie
    15 July 2019
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    Walter Benjamin: The Refugee and Migrant

    Was Walter Benjamin a refugee or a migrant? Would he be considered as one or the other today? Is this what it means to actualise, to make contemporary, to bring Walter Benjamin into the Now?

    On the anniversary of Walter Benjamin's birth, we republish Esther Leslie's Walter Benjamin: The Refugee and Migrant.

    John Berger
    06 December 2018
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    Antiquarian and Revolutionary: John Berger on Walter Benjamin

    John Berger presents his singular engagement with one of his greatest enduring influences, the eclectic German critic and thinker Walter Benjamin. 

    Verso Books
    18 November 2018
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    Philosophy: A Verso Bookshelf

    Our ultimate books on Philosophy and Political Theory.

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    05 January 2018
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    For a Marxist Poetics of Science: An Interview with Esther Leslie

    In this career-spanning interview with George Souvlis, Esther Leslie discusses Walter Benjamin, animated film, the history of color, the Historical Materialism project, and the commemoration of the revolutionary past. 

    Wendy Brown
    12 February 2017
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    Resisting Left Melancholia

    Verso Books
    14 December 2016
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    Acts of Dissent Through History

    Verso Books
    10 December 2016
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    Verso's Philosophy and Theory Bookshelf

    Verso Books
    26 September 2016
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    Fiction and Form: Howard Caygill, Sara Salih and Matthew Charles join The Storyteller editors

    Verso Books
    20 September 2016
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    Frankfurt School Bookshelf

    In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Their lives, like their ideas, profoundly, sometimes tragically, reflected and shaped the shattering events of the twentieth century.  Here we present our Frankfurt School reading.

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