Capri: encounter with Asja Lacis and Marxist readings

Capri, Italy · 1924

The encounter with Asja Lacis and readings of Lukács belong to the development of Benjamin’s engagement with politics and cultural production. This development should not be reduced to one person or event.

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Asja Lacis, Revolutionär im Beruf: Berichte über proletarisches Theater, über Meyerhold, Brecht, Benjamin und Piscator (1971).
György Lukács, Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein (1923).
Howard Eiland; Michael W. Jennings, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (2014).

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