On Hashish

Name: On Hashish
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ISBN: 9780674022218

ISBN-10: 0674022211

ISBN-13: 9780674022218

Edition: 2006

Authors: Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland, Marcus Boon

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Walter Benjamin's posthumously published collection of writings on hashish is a detailed blueprint for a book that was never written--a "truly exceptional book about hashish," as Benjamin describes it in a letter to his friend Gershom Scholem. A series of "protocols of drug experiments," written by himself and his co-participants between 1927 and 1934, together with short prose pieces that he published during his lifetime, On Hashish provides a peculiarly intimate portrait of Benjamin, venturesome as ever at the end of the Weimar Republic, and of his unique form of thought. Consciously placing himself in a tradition of literary drug-connoisseurs from Baudelaire to Hermann Hesse, Benjamin…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.47" wide x 7.48" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis.

Howard Eiland teaches literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Marcus Boon is Associate Professor of English at York University, Toronto.



Translator's Foreword


Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts


""Walter Benjamin and Drug Literature,""



Editorial Note



Protocols of Drug Experiments (1-12) Completed Texts ""Myslovice--Braunschweig--Marseilles"" ""Hashish in Marseilles"" Addenda From One-Way Street From ""Surrealism"" From ""May-June 1931"" From The Arcades Project From the Notebooks From the Letters ""An Experiment by Walter Benjamin,"" by Jean Selz


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