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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... Hannah Arendt would have wanted us to do , and yet move on to a different finale — not to the pure metaphysics of his luminous early thought , as suggested by Dr. Arendt's arrange- ment , but to later essays in which the metaphysical ...
... Hannah Arendt would have wanted us to do , and yet move on to a different finale — not to the pure metaphysics of his luminous early thought , as suggested by Dr. Arendt's arrange- ment , but to later essays in which the metaphysical ...
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... Hannah Arendt , 1906–75 , vii , ix , xv , xxxii Artemis , 294 Auerbach , Erich , 1892-1957 , Ger- man philologist and critic , 181 Bakunin , Mikhail Aleksandrovich , 1814-76 , Russian anarchist , 189 Balzac , Honoré de , 1799-1850 , 146 ...
... Hannah Arendt , 1906–75 , vii , ix , xv , xxxii Artemis , 294 Auerbach , Erich , 1892-1957 , Ger- man philologist and critic , 181 Bakunin , Mikhail Aleksandrovich , 1814-76 , Russian anarchist , 189 Balzac , Honoré de , 1799-1850 , 146 ...
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... Hannah Arendt shortly before her death . " There has been no more original , no more serious critic and reader in our time . " -George Steiner " Benjamin is a legitimate ancestor of much that for the moment is most alive in criticism ...
... Hannah Arendt shortly before her death . " There has been no more original , no more serious critic and reader in our time . " -George Steiner " Benjamin is a legitimate ancestor of much that for the moment is most alive in criticism ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
Urheberrecht | |
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