Caroline Adler is a scholar of Cultural History and Theory and a Research Associate at the DFG-Research Group Imaginaries of Force at the University of Hamburg. Her research interests include representation, method, and literarization in Walter Benjamin’s work, and epistemologies of the aesthetic. She is part of the Berlin collective diffrakt - centre for theoretical periphery.
Caroline Adler
Contributions
“Countless Constellations”: Walter Benjamin’s Moscow Literarization
In the spring of 1927, a few months after his stay in Moscow in the winter of 1926–27, the German critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin reflects on his travels and his own subsequent literary production in several letters to friends and colleagues. In a short note to the journalist Siegfried Kracauer he mentions his essay “Moscow,” albeit as a side note, and describes it as “keine volle réussite,”