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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... forces do not move in a consonant rhythm , and yet , “ if one arrow points to the goal toward which the profane ... force can , through acting , increase another that is acting in the opposite direction , so the order of the profane ...
... forces do not move in a consonant rhythm , and yet , “ if one arrow points to the goal toward which the profane ... force can , through acting , increase another that is acting in the opposite direction , so the order of the profane ...
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... forces to which they owe their existence . Accordingly , in Ger- many in particular , the last manifestation of such forces bore no fruit for parliaments . They lack the sense that a lawmaking violence is represented by themselves ; no ...
... forces to which they owe their existence . Accordingly , in Ger- many in particular , the last manifestation of such forces bore no fruit for parliaments . They lack the sense that a lawmaking violence is represented by themselves ; no ...
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... forces or those earlier suppressed triumph over the hitherto lawmaking violence and thus found a new law , destined in its turn to decay . On the breaking of this cycle maintained by mythical forms of law , on the suspension of law with ...
... forces or those earlier suppressed triumph over the hitherto lawmaking violence and thus found a new law , destined in its turn to decay . On the breaking of this cycle maintained by mythical forms of law , on the suspension of law with ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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