"Unpacking my Library": Children's Literature in the Writings of Walter Benjamin

• Autores: Ian Grosvenor
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 38, Nº. 1, 2002 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Books and education: 500 years of reading and learning), págs. 97-111
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In recentyears as the works of Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish cultural critic and philosopher, have become more widely available in translation commentaries have emerged which focus on what his writings have to offer current practices of cultural history. Benjamin was an avid collector of children's books. He also wrote extensively on children's literature, forgotten children's stories, the compulsion and cultures of book collecting and about his own childhood experiences in Berlin. This essay concerns itself with Benjamin's relationship with children's literature, both a child and as a collector, and his insights into the process of engaging with the internal world of the child. In doing so consideration is given to his innovative approach to memory-work and the relationship between �remembering�, memory, artefacts and history. In this sense, this essay is about the book and education and the writing of cultural history