books on W. Benjamin

[Michael Young]

Joachim,

thanks for the excellent suggestion of the benjamin/adorno correspondence.
'excellent' is perhaps a bit disengenuous, since its a book I have and I
don't, necessarily, want to seems as though I'm patting myself on the back.
<hehhe> I was a bit surprise, in the correspondence, at just how 'cranky'
Adorno could become, and at some of the, what seemed to me to be, slightly
cutting remarks about B.'s work, especially the *Arcades Project* in it
many, varient forms. Unlike the Benjamin/Scholem correspondence; although,
perhaps, the tenor & 'topic' of the discussions between Benjamin & the
these two are different in the paths of their individual trajectory(s) and
so are allowed. (Or I;m just impossible mistaken and don't know *what* I'm
talking about!)

As for finding that book: Mira Komarovsky, The Unemployed Man and his
Family, New York 1940
two great online sites for finding used books are:
http://www.abe.com
&
http://www.addall.com/used/

the benefit of the 1st is that, by using the search function page, you can
limit search parameters by everything from country where the bookseller
will be in, to binding, to listing titles cheapest first (a useful field!).
Its also hooked up to about 3800 booksellers, so that helps too. (I'm
currently awaiting Victor Farias' *Heidegger & Nazism*, which I ordered
from abe.com.) The benefit of the 2nd site is that its a 'Meta-site', and
so therefore searches a number of other used book sites for you.

By using the 2nd search engine (addall.com) I was able to find 1 copy of
the book, 1sy edition, listed at $72us. check it out, its probably still
there.

hope this helps,

cheers,

mdy/.



>Michael Young schrieb:
>
>> I'm also interested in the era (Weimar) generally; WB's 'constellation'
>> (adorno, lukacs, scholem, etc etc)
>>
>>
>Dear Michael,
>
>then you might perhaps be interested in the correspondence between
>Benjamin and
>Adorno (edited by Henri Lonitz, Frankfurt 1994). It provides very interesting
>insights into both authors "work in progress", their mutual inspirations
>and -
>of course - their disparate biographical backgrounds. I do not know if there
>exists an english translation.
>
>And now something different: Since you are a book shop coordinator you might
>perhaps have an idea where I can find the following title I am searching
>for a
>long time: Mira Komarovsky, The Unemployed Man and his Family, New York 1940
>(only first edition). I would be grateful for any information about this book.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Joachim


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