Benjamin's Tomb

Walter Benjamin's Grave

In 1940, Benjamin died in a small town on the Spanish-French border. In 2002, the author, anthropologist Taussig, visited Benjamin's grave there. This book was born. Taking its title from the eponymous essay, "Benjamin's Grave," the book expands upon this, revealing the scholarly concerns of an anthropologist. Topics range from Benjamin's grave to Colombian peasant poets, the bodily qualities of shamanism, and the disappearance of the ocean. Each of these seemingly disparate themes is marked by the author's distinctive style: an appreciation of objects, from which he extracts profound philosophical and anthropological reflections. Through these unusual essays, the author demonstrates the alternative path that materialist knowledge offers to the increasingly abstract, globalized, homogenous, and electronic world we inhabit. Through Benjamin's grave, the author embarks on a journey that is at once ethnographic, autobiographical, and culturally critical, offering readers his own bespoke memory of the great 20th-century literary critic.

2023-08-01

北京大学出版社

376

9787301334706