Benjamin's death, Part Two

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

  the faz article by henning ritter names some minor mistakes of schwartz, & it 
  questions the thesis that benjamin broke completely with communism. concerning 
  the famous lost manuscript ritter supports rolf tiedemann's position that 
  this must have been a copy of "über den begriff der geschichte". the article 
  also sums up what we know (or better: not know) about the death of walter 
  benjamin. all still pretty unclear, and this will perhaps never change. ritter 
  closes his article with the suggestion to leave behind the speculations on a  
  secret manuscript in that notorious black brief-case. but then it's such a   
  fascinating rohrschach-test for intellectuals ... 

yours: kai //:: ps: "... ich glaube nicht, dass es dann oben auf meinem zimmer 
              der subalterne wunsch war, meiner traurigkeit zu entgehen, der 
             mich gegen sieben uhr abends veranlasste, den haschisch zu mir zu 
            nehmen. viel eher war es der versuch, ganz mich unter die magische 
          hand zu ducken, mit der die stadt mich leise am genick genommen hatte 
         ..." --- walter benjamin: die geschichte eines haschisch-rausches 
        [1930] --- ... i don't think it was, then up in my room, the subaltern  
       wish to escape my sadness which caused me at about seven o'clock in the  
     evening to eat the hashish. much more was it the effort to duck fully under 
    the magic hand with which the city had taken me quietly at the nape of the 
   neck ...


Vaska Tumir schrieb:

> Hello all!  I have no German, but here's a link to Stephen Schwartz's
> article on the same:
>
> http://www.weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_6_37_01/schwartz_feat_6_37_01.asp
>
> I thought the whole story way too convoluted and rather thin, but it was an
> impatient reading.
>
> Vaska
>
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