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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... concept of the " profane illumi- nation , " which emerges here to characterize Surrealist vision , suggests Benjamin's own way of unveiling , in his materialist hermeneutics , how history resides in some of the things of the world and ...
... concept of the " profane illumi- nation , " which emerges here to characterize Surrealist vision , suggests Benjamin's own way of unveiling , in his materialist hermeneutics , how history resides in some of the things of the world and ...
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... concept of the exterior of an active human being the core of whom is taken to be character . No definition of the external world can disregard the limits set by the concept of the active man . Between the active man and the external ...
... concept of the exterior of an active human being the core of whom is taken to be character . No definition of the external world can disregard the limits set by the concept of the active man . Between the active man and the external ...
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... concept of fate is to be attained , therefore , it must be clearly distinguished from that of character , which in turn cannot be achieved until the latter has been more exactly defined . On the basis of this definition the two concepts ...
... concept of fate is to be attained , therefore , it must be clearly distinguished from that of character , which in turn cannot be achieved until the latter has been more exactly defined . On the basis of this definition the two concepts ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
Urheberrecht | |
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