[lit-ideas] Re: The life of Walter Benjamin, not very well told
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:59:55 -0700 (PDT)
It wasn't a suicide, but then he was a Soviet spy. This looks like some
elementary school textbook.
O.K.
On Monday, March 17, 2014 8:37 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Review of a book on Walter Benjamin in today's Wall Street Journal
http://tinyurl.com/q2qwcyp
'Benjamin is here as much a flesh-and-blood representative of
the modern as its theoretician. Modernism was all about the peripheral, the
ephemeral, the accidental, the transient. It was about plurality, not
singularity; ambiguity instead of certainty. Walter Benjamin traveled this
off-road, and his thought was consistent with his experience. He was an
incessant gambler, a serial adulterer, an experimenter with drugs and a refugee
in every sense. In discarding traditional intellectual categories and seeking
new kaleidoscopic sources of inspiration, he showed parallel urges in his
ideas.'
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This paragraph alone should win its authors some sort of prize.
Robert Paul
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