The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno.

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• This is the first time all of the surviving correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin has appeared in English.
  
• Provides a key to the personalities and projects of these two major intellectual figures.
  
• Offers a compelling insight into the cultural politics of the period, at a time of social and political upheaval.
  
• An invaluable resource for all students of the work of Adorno and especially of Benjamin, extensively annotated and cross-referenced.

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) and Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) were prominent members of the Frankfurt School, and among the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century in the areas of social theory, philosophy, literary criticism and aesthetics.