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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... feeling is fear of being recognized by them through contact . The horror that stirs deep in man is an obscure awareness that in him some- thing lives so akin to the animal that it might be recognized . All disgust is originally disgust ...
... feeling is fear of being recognized by them through contact . The horror that stirs deep in man is an obscure awareness that in him some- thing lives so akin to the animal that it might be recognized . All disgust is originally disgust ...
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... feeling , dazzled , flutters like a flock of birds in the woman's radiance . And as birds seek refuge in the leafy recesses of a tree , feelings escape into the shaded wrinkles , the awkward movements and incon- spicuous blemishes of ...
... feeling , dazzled , flutters like a flock of birds in the woman's radiance . And as birds seek refuge in the leafy recesses of a tree , feelings escape into the shaded wrinkles , the awkward movements and incon- spicuous blemishes of ...
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... feeling of loneliness is very quickly lost . My walking stick begins to give me a special pleasure . One be- comes so tender , fears that a shadow falling on the paper might hurt it . The nausea disappears . One reads the notices on the ...
... feeling of loneliness is very quickly lost . My walking stick begins to give me a special pleasure . One be- comes so tender , fears that a shadow falling on the paper might hurt it . The nausea disappears . One reads the notices on the ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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