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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... close combat with the defenders of an ossifying party line , continued to believe that Marxists should not participate in construing a totally closed world , but should spontaneously respond to new technological changes in con ...
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... close upon them once more , never to let me see or enter them . But those five last fearful minutes of the journey before everyone got out have been converted into the gaze of my eyes , and there are those perhaps who look into them as ...
... close upon them once more , never to let me see or enter them . But those five last fearful minutes of the journey before everyone got out have been converted into the gaze of my eyes , and there are those perhaps who look into them as ...
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... close to the Sur- realist conception of love . " All the poets of the ' new style , ' " Erich Auerbach points out in his excellent Dante : Poet of the Secular World , " possess a mystical beloved , they all have ap- proximately the same ...
... close to the Sur- realist conception of love . " All the poets of the ' new style , ' " Erich Auerbach points out in his excellent Dante : Poet of the Secular World , " possess a mystical beloved , they all have ap- proximately the same ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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