Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical WritingSchocken Books, 1986 - 348 Seiten A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin. He moves seamlessly from literary criticism to autobiography to philosophical-theological speculations, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest and most versatile writers of the twentieth century. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times. |
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... Baudelaire and Adalbert Stifter , an Austrian con- servative writer , and in his letters indulged in a Swiftian game of establishing a new university that would gather in one dis- tinguished place the silliest and most pedestrian minds ...
... Baudelaire and Adalbert Stifter , an Austrian con- servative writer , and in his letters indulged in a Swiftian game of establishing a new university that would gather in one dis- tinguished place the silliest and most pedestrian minds ...
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... Baudelaire's poetry draws its strength from the rebellious emotionalism of this group . He throws his lot in with the asocial . His only sexual communion is realized with a whore . Facilis descensus Averni —Virgil , Aeneid What is ...
... Baudelaire's poetry draws its strength from the rebellious emotionalism of this group . He throws his lot in with the asocial . His only sexual communion is realized with a whore . Facilis descensus Averni —Virgil , Aeneid What is ...
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Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writing Walter Benjamin Peter Demetz. in Baudelaire . Only Baudelaire hated as Kraus did the satiety of healthy common sense , and the compromise that intellec- tuals made with it in order to find ...
Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writing Walter Benjamin Peter Demetz. in Baudelaire . Only Baudelaire hated as Kraus did the satiety of healthy common sense , and the compromise that intellec- tuals made with it in order to find ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
Urheberrecht | |
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