Volume 24, Number 17 · October 27, 1977
The Ruins of Walter Benjamin
By Charles Rosen
The Origin of German Tragic Drama
by Walter Benjamin, translated by John Osborne
New Left Books (London), 256 pp., £7.25
The reputation of the German philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin is now secure; paradoxically it has been given its firm basis by the disputes among those who believe they have a claim upon him, and by the widely differing interpretations of his work. The history of the dispersal of his papers and their posthumous publication has been determined by these conflicting and disparate claims.
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