Papers

Authors: Ingram, Susan

Ingram, S. (2002). The Writing of Asia Lacis. 2002. New German Critique 86: 159-177.

Area: Continental Philosophy
Kw: Diaries; communism; Walter Benjamin

Considers Asja Lacis's Russian memoir in order to highlight the agenda of its German version and its aggrandizement of Walter Benjamin. Lacis as femme fatale responsible for seducing Benjamin with Marxist materialism way from his Jewish heritage and faithful wife; Story behind stereotypical references to the 'Latvian Bolshevik.'

Thanks to the Australasian Association of Philosophy and Macquarie University.

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