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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... guilt of more natural life , which consigns the living , innocent and unhappy , to a retri- bution that " expiates " the guilt of mere life - and doubtless also purifies the guilty , not of guilt , however , but of law . For with mere ...
... guilt of more natural life , which consigns the living , innocent and unhappy , to a retri- bution that " expiates " the guilt of mere life - and doubtless also purifies the guilty , not of guilt , however , but of law . For with mere ...
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... guilt , and within which there is no conceivable path of liberation ( for insofar as something is fate , it is misfortune and guilt ) —such an order cannot be religious , no matter how the misunderstood concept of guilt appears to ...
... guilt , and within which there is no conceivable path of liberation ( for insofar as something is fate , it is misfortune and guilt ) —such an order cannot be religious , no matter how the misunderstood concept of guilt appears to ...
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... guilt , character gives this mystical enslavement of the person to the guilt context the answer of genius . Complication becomes simplicity , fate freedom . For the character of the comic figure is not the scarecrow of the determinist ...
... guilt , character gives this mystical enslavement of the person to the guilt context the answer of genius . Complication becomes simplicity , fate freedom . For the character of the comic figure is not the scarecrow of the determinist ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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