[Illustration fr. photograph by Walter Benjamin's friend, GISÈLE FREUND. Courtesy Agence Nina Beskow, Paris.]
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"HELL is a city much like London --- A populous and a smoky city; There are all sorts of people undone, And there is little or no fun done; Small justice shown, and still less pity"
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Walter Benjamin
July 15, 1892 - September 26, 1940
The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate is an on-line research resource for individuals interested in the writings and the ongoing critical theory of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940).
This site maintains a collection of resource information on some of Benjamin's writings, as well as current essays about Benjamin, his work, and the work of some of his close contemporaries. Our focus has been on those writings and projects too-often excluded from academic Benjamin scholarship.
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[Site updated April - May, 2007]
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Walter Benjamin on Martin Heidegger #2:
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Walter Benjamin to Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem:
[ca. December 1, 1920]
Dear Gerhard,
....I have read Heidegger's book on Duns Scotus. It is incredible that anyone could qualify for a university position on the basis of such a study. Its execution requires nothing more than great diligence and a command of scholastic Latin, and, in spite of all of its philosophical packaging, it is basically only a piece of good translating work. The author's contemptible groveling at Rickert's and Husserl's feet does not make reading it more pleasant. The book does not deal with Duns Scotus's linguistic philosophy in philosophical terms, and thus what it leaves undone is no small task. ....
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[From The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940, edited & annotated by Gershom Scholem & Theodor W. Adorno, trans. by M.R. & E.M. Jacobson, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994, p.168.]
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The Construction of Queer Culture in India: Pioneers and Landmarks (2006)
A Quarterly Journal of Literary Transgressions
Debut Work of New Young Writers
[Issue #1, Spring 2006]
Herbert
Marcuse:
"Aggressiveness in Advanced Industrial Society"(1967)
Reprinted with permission
from Beacon Press
Kabbalah
- Leo Baeck: SEFER YETZIRAH trans. by S.J.Thompson
- SEFER YETZIRAH: Book of Creation & Saadia's Commentary trans. by S.J.Thompson
- SEFER YETZIRAH Bibliography
- G.W.F. Hegel: On Kabbalah and Gnosticism trans. by S.J.Thompson
Toward a Radical Reassessment of
N.A.T.O. &
U.S. Foreign Policy
Hölderlin Translations
- Hölderlin, On Judgment & Being trans. H.S.Harris
- Hölderlin,On Jacobi's Letters Concerning the Teaching of Spinoza (1790) trans. by S.J.Thompson
- Hölderlin, Letters to G.W.F. Hegel and Friedrich Schelling trans. by S.J.Thompson
- Wilhelm Waiblinger's essay: "Friedrich Hölderlin's Life, Poetry and Madness" (1830) trans. by S.J.Thompson
- Alleged Account of Madame de S....y [From Moritz Hartmann, "Eine Vermutung" ("A Supposition," 1852)] trans. by S.J.Thompson
- Documents from Isaak von Sinclair's Trial for High Treason trans. by S.J.Thompson
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