Sometimes around here it can feel like all Walter Benjamin, all the time (an exaggeration, surely, but he has been called our "patron saint," after all).
So I was excited this summer during my trip to Berlin, when, during a stroll outside my hotel, I happened upon the following "Platz" (meaning "place" or "plaza"):
[photo credit: yours truly]
Was it fate? Who knows? All we know is that we're excited and proud to be bringing Benjamin's extraordinary body of work to English-language readers. We've had quite a run during the last year or so with Berlin Childhood around 1900, On Hashish, and The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire, and stay tuned for Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: and Other Writings on Media, coming in November 2007.
On a related note, fans of the Frankfurt School should be excited to get their hands on our forthcoming biography of Theodor Adorno, currently scheduled for publication in September 2007. For now, you can satiate yourself by perusing Benjamin and Adorno's Complete Correspondence, available in paperback at the fabulously low price of $21.95.
P.S. Click "continue reading" for a picture of the "Platz" itself, complete with fountain ...
The Platz:
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