Taussig, Michael T.
Walter Benjamin's Grave
- ISBN 13:
- 9780226790046
- author:
- Taussig, Michael T.
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2006
- Pages:
- 258
- Dimensions:
- 152 mm X 228 mm
- Genre:
- Other prose: from c 1900 -
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Walter Benjamin's Grave by Michael Taussig is an essay about the cemetery and eyewitness accounts of Benjamin's border travails. In 2002, the author visited Benjamin's grave in Port Bou, Spain, where he had committed suicide in 1940 while attempting to escape the Nazis. The book shares a common thread among eight essays collected in this volume: a love of muted and defective storytelling as a form of analysis. Taussig draws on his own experiences, including discussions of peasant poetry in Colombia, a pact with the devil, and the relationship between flowers and violence. Through these stories, he explores materialist knowledge as an alternative to the increasingly abstract world we inhabit. Taussig's unique brand of storytelling relies on a deep appreciation for objects and things, which he uses to retrieve deeper philosophical and anthropological meanings. This collection offers a fascinating insight into the author's approach to analysis and his passion for uncovering hidden truths in everyday life.
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