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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... Paris vécu . " Lived Berlin " does not sound so good but is as real . And it is not just this title that concerns me here ; Paris itself is the fourth in the series of voluntary or involuntary guides that began with my nursemaids . If I ...
... Paris vécu . " Lived Berlin " does not sound so good but is as real . And it is not just this title that concerns me here ; Paris itself is the fourth in the series of voluntary or involuntary guides that began with my nursemaids . If I ...
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... Paris ( 1828 ) Most of the Paris arcades are built in the decade and a half after 1822. The first condition for this new fashion is the boom in the textile trade . The magasins de nouveauté , the first es- tablishments to keep large ...
... Paris ( 1828 ) Most of the Paris arcades are built in the decade and a half after 1822. The first condition for this new fashion is the boom in the textile trade . The magasins de nouveauté , the first es- tablishments to keep large ...
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... Paris experiences a flowering of speculation . Playing the stock exchange displaces the game of chance in the forms that had come down from feudal so- ciety . To the ... Paris thus Paris , Capital of the Nineteenth Century 159.
... Paris experiences a flowering of speculation . Playing the stock exchange displaces the game of chance in the forms that had come down from feudal so- ciety . To the ... Paris thus Paris , Capital of the Nineteenth Century 159.
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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