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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... concerned with construct- ing a systematic pigeonhole than with sketching a biographi- cal account of Benjamin's experiences against crucial years of Central European history and with trying to ease , if it can be done at all , the ...
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... concerned with psychology ; he made visible the criminal element hidden in each person . Brecht is concerned with politics ; he makes visible the element of crime hidden in all business . Bourgeois legality and crime - these are , by ...
... concerned with psychology ; he made visible the criminal element hidden in each person . Brecht is concerned with politics ; he makes visible the element of crime hidden in all business . Bourgeois legality and crime - these are , by ...
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... concern its uses but only its evaluation . The question that concerns us is , what light is thrown on the nature of violence by the fact that such a criterion or distinction can be applied to it at all , or , in other words , what is ...
... concern its uses but only its evaluation . The question that concerns us is , what light is thrown on the nature of violence by the fact that such a criterion or distinction can be applied to it at all , or , in other words , what is ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
Urheberrecht | |
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