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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... experience scarcely known to later periods . Its waning is marked by the flowering of astronomy at the beginning of the modern age . Kepler , Copernicus , and Tycho Brahe were certainly not driven by scientific impulses alone . All the ...
... experience scarcely known to later periods . Its waning is marked by the flowering of astronomy at the beginning of the modern age . Kepler , Copernicus , and Tycho Brahe were certainly not driven by scientific impulses alone . All the ...
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... experience alone that we gain certain knowledge of what is nearest to us and what is remot est to us , and never of one without the other . This means , however , that man can be in ecstatic contact with the cosmos only communally . It ...
... experience alone that we gain certain knowledge of what is nearest to us and what is remot est to us , and never of one without the other . This means , however , that man can be in ecstatic contact with the cosmos only communally . It ...
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... experience . But anyone who has perceived that the writings of this circle are not literature but something else ... experiences , not with theories and still less with phantasms . And these experiences are by no means limited to dreams ...
... experience . But anyone who has perceived that the writings of this circle are not literature but something else ... experiences , not with theories and still less with phantasms . And these experiences are by no means limited to dreams ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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