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On hashish

On Hashish provides a portrait of Benjamin, venturesome as ever at the end of the Weimar Republic, and of his unique form of thought." "Consciously placing himself in a tradition of literary drug-connoisseurs from Baudelaire to Hermann Hesse, Benjamin looked to hashish and other drugs for...

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Main Author: Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006
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