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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... Kafka's Prague milieu , and he does not avoid ideological simplifica- tion when he declares Kafka to be a prophet of terrible bureauc- racies ( a view generally expressed at the East European Kafka Conference near Prague in 1963 ) or ...
... Kafka's Prague milieu , and he does not avoid ideological simplifica- tion when he declares Kafka to be a prophet of terrible bureauc- racies ( a view generally expressed at the East European Kafka Conference near Prague in 1963 ) or ...
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... Kafka essay , for example - he was concerned with Kafka merely from the phenomenal point of view - took the work as something that had grown by itself— the man , too - severed all its connections , even that with its author . It was ...
... Kafka essay , for example - he was concerned with Kafka merely from the phenomenal point of view - took the work as something that had grown by itself— the man , too - severed all its connections , even that with its author . It was ...
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... Kafka's . But whereas the type of petit bourgeois current today- that is , the fascist - decides in face of this situation to exert his iron , indomitable will , Kafka hardly resists ; he is wise . Where the fascist imposes heroism , he ...
... Kafka's . But whereas the type of petit bourgeois current today- that is , the fascist - decides in face of this situation to exert his iron , indomitable will , Kafka hardly resists ; he is wise . Where the fascist imposes heroism , he ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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