Berlin Childhood around 1900 keyword-political-history disturbance

disturbance

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

and migrants

in an age of horror and crisis

More setbacks were to follow

Berlin Childhood around 1900 keyword-political-history disturbanceComposed 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