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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... expression of the point in history occupied by this last true élite of bourgeois Berlin . It was as close to the abyss of the Great War as the Meeting House was to the steep slope down to the Landwehr Canal , it was as sharply divided ...
... expression of the point in history occupied by this last true élite of bourgeois Berlin . It was as close to the abyss of the Great War as the Meeting House was to the steep slope down to the Landwehr Canal , it was as sharply divided ...
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... expression of human mental life can be understood as a kind of language , and this understanding , in the manner of a true method , everywhere raises new questions . It is possible to talk about a language of music and of sculpture ...
... expression of human mental life can be understood as a kind of language , and this understanding , in the manner of a true method , everywhere raises new questions . It is possible to talk about a language of music and of sculpture ...
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... expression , insofar as it is a communication of mental meaning , is to be classed as language . And expression , by its whole innermost nature , is certainly to be understood only as language ; on the other hand , to understand a ...
... expression , insofar as it is a communication of mental meaning , is to be classed as language . And expression , by its whole innermost nature , is certainly to be understood only as language ; on the other hand , to understand a ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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