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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... finally , when there is no turn- ing away from them , weariness and torment . By everything that happens , and by what he says and does , the subject is surprised and overwhelmed . His laughter , all his utterances happen to him like ...
... finally , when there is no turn- ing away from them , weariness and torment . By everything that happens , and by what he says and does , the subject is surprised and overwhelmed . His laughter , all his utterances happen to him like ...
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... finally enfeebles itself , dissolving into a merely animal voice : a humming that is to the word what his smile is to the joke is the holy of holies of this performer's art . In this smile , this humming in which , as in a crater lake ...
... finally enfeebles itself , dissolving into a merely animal voice : a humming that is to the word what his smile is to the joke is the holy of holies of this performer's art . In this smile , this humming in which , as in a crater lake ...
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... finally fixed by Stifter . It is decisive for Kraus that he locates origin at ex- actly this vanishing point . It is his program to reverse the de- velopment of bourgeois - capitalist affairs to a condition that was never theirs . But ...
... finally fixed by Stifter . It is decisive for Kraus that he locates origin at ex- actly this vanishing point . It is his program to reverse the de- velopment of bourgeois - capitalist affairs to a condition that was never theirs . But ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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