WALTER BENJAMIN: NAAR EEN SOCIALISTISCHE OPVOEDING VOOR KINDEREN. 1970.

Nijmegen: Uitgave Sun, 1970

22.5 x 16.5cm, 44pp plus card covers. First edition thus – a collection of Benjamin’s writings on children and play translated into Dutch along with comment by Asja Lazis taken from a socialist perspective. A key figure in the Frankfurt School of Marxism, Benjamin wrote on a wide range of topics – his theories of art criticism after the emergence of mechanical reproductivity being the best known of his works – but he also wrote extensively on the activities of children and gave entertaining lectures on radio for younger people that covered a wide range of philosophical topics in the guise of stories. This is an Dutch translation of some of those works and theories. VG+. Scarce.