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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... creation to language . The hierarchies of the world and the order of language , or , rather , “ words , ” intimately correspond : although the word of God is of absolute and active power , in man's realm the word is more limited , and ...
... creation to language . The hierarchies of the world and the order of language , or , rather , “ words , ” intimately correspond : although the word of God is of absolute and active power , in man's realm the word is more limited , and ...
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... creation of man the threefold rhythm of the creation of nature has given way to an entirely different order . In it , therefore , language has a different meaning : the trinity of the act is here preserved , but in this very parallelism ...
... creation of man the threefold rhythm of the creation of nature has given way to an entirely different order . In it , therefore , language has a different meaning : the trinity of the act is here preserved , but in this very parallelism ...
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... creation by God , and in this sense he is himself creative , as is expressed by mythological wisdom in the idea ... creation , it does not emerge from language in the absolutely unlimited and infinite manner of creation ; rather , the ...
... creation by God , and in this sense he is himself creative , as is expressed by mythological wisdom in the idea ... creation , it does not emerge from language in the absolutely unlimited and infinite manner of creation ; rather , the ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
Urheberrecht | |
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