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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... already lived usually strikes us in the form of a sound . It is a word , tapping , or a rustling that is endowed with the magic power to transport us into the cool tomb of long ago , from the vault of which the present seems to return ...
... already lived usually strikes us in the form of a sound . It is a word , tapping , or a rustling that is endowed with the magic power to transport us into the cool tomb of long ago , from the vault of which the present seems to return ...
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... already characterizes the poverty of the exploited at the beginning of capitalism . Brecht is concerned with both ; he therefore draws the epochs together and assigns his gangster type to quarters in a London that has the rhythm and ...
... already characterizes the poverty of the exploited at the beginning of capitalism . Brecht is concerned with both ; he therefore draws the epochs together and assigns his gangster type to quarters in a London that has the rhythm and ...
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... already been considered , must now be more fully characterized . Sorel has the credit - from political , rather than purely theoretical , considerations of having first distinguished them . He con- trasts them as the political and the ...
... already been considered , must now be more fully characterized . Sorel has the credit - from political , rather than purely theoretical , considerations of having first distinguished them . He con- trasts them as the political and the ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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