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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... fall like gentle sleep itself into his workshop labor . About it he draws a charmed circle of fragments . " Genius is application . " COME BACK ! ALL IS FORGIVEN Like someone performing the giant swing on the horizontal bar , each boy ...
... fall like gentle sleep itself into his workshop labor . About it he draws a charmed circle of fragments . " Genius is application . " COME BACK ! ALL IS FORGIVEN Like someone performing the giant swing on the horizontal bar , each boy ...
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... falls on him -thus he emerges from this darkness . But not in all parts ; others remain that are more deeply immersed in it than one suspects . An eye that cannot adjust to this darkness will never perceive the outline of this figure ...
... falls on him -thus he emerges from this darkness . But not in all parts ; others remain that are more deeply immersed in it than one suspects . An eye that cannot adjust to this darkness will never perceive the outline of this figure ...
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... Fall marks the birth of the human word , in which name no longer lives intact , and which has stepped out of name lan- guage , the language of knowledge , from what we may call its own immanent magic , in order to become expressly , as ...
... Fall marks the birth of the human word , in which name no longer lives intact , and which has stepped out of name lan- guage , the language of knowledge , from what we may call its own immanent magic , in order to become expressly , as ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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