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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... give an exact definition of Surrealist experience . But anyone who has perceived that the writings of this circle are not literature but something else demonstrations , watch- words , documents , bluffs , forgeries if you will , but at ...
... give an exact definition of Surrealist experience . But anyone who has perceived that the writings of this circle are not literature but something else demonstrations , watch- words , documents , bluffs , forgeries if you will , but at ...
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... give itself away . Does man communicate his mental being by the names that he gives things ? Or in them ? In the On Language as Such and on the Language of Man 317.
... give itself away . Does man communicate his mental being by the names that he gives things ? Or in them ? In the On Language as Such and on the Language of Man 317.
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... give do not correspond - in a metaphysical , not etymological sense to any knowledge , for they name newborn ... gives mere signs . However , the rejec- tion of bourgeois by mystical linguistic theory equally rests on a misunderstanding ...
... give do not correspond - in a metaphysical , not etymological sense to any knowledge , for they name newborn ... gives mere signs . However , the rejec- tion of bourgeois by mystical linguistic theory equally rests on a misunderstanding ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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