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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... beginning and end of lessons and breaks . The timbre and duration of this signal never varied . And yet how different it sounded at the beginning of the first and at the end of the last period - to circumscribe this difference would be ...
... beginning and end of lessons and breaks . The timbre and duration of this signal never varied . And yet how different it sounded at the beginning of the first and at the end of the last period - to circumscribe this difference would be ...
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... beginning . Little re- mains of the foundation , the plot of the opera . Only the main characters are the same . For it was they who began before our eyes to grow into these years , and to make such bloodstained room for their growing ...
... beginning . Little re- mains of the foundation , the plot of the opera . Only the main characters are the same . For it was they who began before our eyes to grow into these years , and to make such bloodstained room for their growing ...
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... beginning of this clarification- can only be a mediated one . The Activists and the representa- tives of New Matter - of - factness could gesticulate as they pleased : they could not do away with the fact that even the ...
... beginning of this clarification- can only be a mediated one . The Activists and the representa- tives of New Matter - of - factness could gesticulate as they pleased : they could not do away with the fact that even the ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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