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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... Surrealists have exploded tra- ditional poetry from within by pushing the idea of “ poetic life " to the utter limits of the possible ; inevitably they have reached a tortuous moment of transition in which the heroic period of Surrealism ...
... Surrealists have exploded tra- ditional poetry from within by pushing the idea of “ poetic life " to the utter limits of the possible ; inevitably they have reached a tortuous moment of transition in which the heroic period of Surrealism ...
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... Surrealist experiences , " we know only the religious ecstasies or the ecstasies of drugs . The opium of the people , Lenin called religion , and brought the two things closer together than the Surrealists could have liked . I shall ...
... Surrealist experiences , " we know only the religious ecstasies or the ecstasies of drugs . The opium of the people , Lenin called religion , and brought the two things closer together than the Surrealists could have liked . I shall ...
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... Surrealism might grow like a climbing plant , to sink its roots deeper than the theory of " surprised " creation ... Surrealists have one . They are the first to liquidate the sclerotic liberal - moral - humanistic ideal of freedom ...
... Surrealism might grow like a climbing plant , to sink its roots deeper than the theory of " surprised " creation ... Surrealists have one . They are the first to liquidate the sclerotic liberal - moral - humanistic ideal of freedom ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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