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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... entirely cut off , without my knowing whether it is really from this performance or from another , any more than I know whether I saw Kainz or not ; whether his appearance was can- celed or whether the disappointment of finding him less ...
... entirely cut off , without my knowing whether it is really from this performance or from another , any more than I know whether I saw Kainz or not ; whether his appearance was can- celed or whether the disappointment of finding him less ...
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... Prerevolutionary education in Rus- sia was , however , entirely unspecific , European . The European * Soviet Federated Socialist Republic . — ED . moment in higher education , and the national on the 118 Reflections.
... Prerevolutionary education in Rus- sia was , however , entirely unspecific , European . The European * Soviet Federated Socialist Republic . — ED . moment in higher education , and the national on the 118 Reflections.
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... entirely correct when , in another connection , he declared , " The revolu- tionary intellectual appears first and foremost as the betrayer of his class of origin . " This betrayal consists , in the case of the writer , in conduct that ...
... entirely correct when , in another connection , he declared , " The revolu- tionary intellectual appears first and foremost as the betrayer of his class of origin . " This betrayal consists , in the case of the writer , in conduct that ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
Urheberrecht | |
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