{"product_id":"berlin-childhood-around-1900-hardcover","title":"Berlin Childhood Around 1900 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eShierry Weber Nicholsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn elegant new translation of Benjamin's moving evocation of the experiences of his urban childhood\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eComposed in exile in the 1930s and pub­lished as a whole only after his death, the miniatures that make up Benjamin's \u003ci\u003eBerlin Childhood \u003c\/i\u003eare crystallized images of child­hood experienced in a city later surrendered to fascism. No ordinary autobiography, the book is a Proustian experiment in memory and a meditative tour of the iconic spaces of a city irretrievably lost to the adult. Instead of details of family and friends, these minia­tures evoke the sensory richness of childhood in images of the squares and courtyards, the parks and monuments of Berlin, the child's schoolbooks and the gloomy flats of elderly relatives. As Benjamin's friend Theodor Adorno writes in his afterword, 'the images the book brings up into a disturbing prox­imity are not idyllic and not contemplative. The shadow of Hitler's Reich falls across them. Dreamlike, they unite that horror with something that has long existed.' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new translation includes an introduc­tion by Antonia Hofstätter, highlighting the way this nearly century-old work resonates with contemporary readers and inspires hope by providing access to strata of experience not governed by instrumentality and domination.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWALTER BENJAMIN (1892-1940) was a German-Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist associated with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Among his best-known works are 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'Theses on the Philosophy of History' and essays on Kafka, Proust, Baudelaire and the storyteller. His masterwork, the \u003ci\u003eArcades Project\u003c\/i\u003e, which intended to present a cultural theory of modernity through a study of nineteenth-century Paris, remained unfin­ished at his death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSHIERRY WEBER NICHOLSEN is a psychoanalyst practicing in Seattle. She has translated several of Theodor W. Adorno's works, including \u003ci\u003eNotes to Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eExact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eANTONIA HOFSTÄTTER works on early critical theory and aesthetics. She has published widely on the thought of Theodor W. Adorno and is one of the editors of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Adorno Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 7.88 x 5.21 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 18, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44810772447334,"sku":"9781836740148","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/JAib3qGfCQ9781836740148.webp?v=1771624429","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/berlin-childhood-around-1900-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}