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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... appears its goal . Individualism is its theory . In Vandervelde the house appears as the expression of personality . Ornament is to this house what the signature is to a painting . The real meaning of art nouveau is not expressed in ...
... appears its goal . Individualism is its theory . In Vandervelde the house appears as the expression of personality . Ornament is to this house what the signature is to a painting . The real meaning of art nouveau is not expressed in ...
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... appears - a situation that , in this or that form , is always ours . It is not brought home to the spectator but distanced from him . He recognizes it as the real situation , not with satisfaction , as in the theater of nat- uralism ...
... appears - a situation that , in this or that form , is always ours . It is not brought home to the spectator but distanced from him . He recognizes it as the real situation , not with satisfaction , as in the theater of nat- uralism ...
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... appears to suggest the contrary . Another sphere must therefore be sought in which misfortune and guilt alone carry weight , a balance on which bliss and in- nocence are found too light and float upward . This balance is the scale of ...
... appears to suggest the contrary . Another sphere must therefore be sought in which misfortune and guilt alone carry weight , a balance on which bliss and in- nocence are found too light and float upward . This balance is the scale of ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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