Left Bank Books Logo

Collectively operated since 1973

Return to Staff%20Picks


Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History'

by: Michael Lowy

Publisher: Verso Books (2006)

$19.95

Out of stock

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.