Howard Eiland is an editor and translator of Walter Benjamin’s writings based in the USA. Formerly Lecturer in Literature at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, his previous titles include Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (2016).
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Early in his life, Walter Benjamin committed himself to a typically paradoxical idea: Die Freundschaft der fremden Freunde—the friendship of friends who remain strange to each other even in their closeness. Such strangeness in the midst of intimacy ... SEE MORE