Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History'
by: Michael Lowy
Publisher: Verso Books (2006)
$19.95
Staff Pick by comrade: Ariel
Walter Benjamin's theses on history, a clandestine political-philosophical transmission to his friends just before his death, are famously dense and esoteric. Here, Löwy helps unpack some of their content and secret meaning.