Berlin Childhood around 1900 keyword-political-history in an age of horror

in an age of horror and crisis

Returning here to an early fascination

The main symptom in this paradigmatic shift has been the increasing centrality of the ‘discourse’ approach in social theory

on bureaucratic privilege

and migrants

Berlin Childhood around 1900 keyword-political-history in an age of horrorComposed in exile in the 1930s and published as a whole only after his death, the miniatures that make up Benjamins Berlin Childhood are 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