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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... idea , the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself . Speech conquers thought , but writing ... idea - style - writing . The value of the fair copy is that in producing it you confine attention to calligraphy . The idea ...
... idea , the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself . Speech conquers thought , but writing ... idea - style - writing . The value of the fair copy is that in producing it you confine attention to calligraphy . The idea ...
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... ideas do not permit immediate logical access to the idea of fate , and there- fore modern men accept the idea of reading character from , for example , the physical features of a person , finding knowl- edge of character as such somehow ...
... ideas do not permit immediate logical access to the idea of fate , and there- fore modern men accept the idea of reading character from , for example , the physical features of a person , finding knowl- edge of character as such somehow ...
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... idea ; but this idea can bear no fruit even within that realm of Ideas whose circumference defines the idea of God . All that is asserted here is that all expression , insofar as it is a communication of mental meaning , is to be ...
... idea ; but this idea can bear no fruit even within that realm of Ideas whose circumference defines the idea of God . All that is asserted here is that all expression , insofar as it is a communication of mental meaning , is to be ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
Urheberrecht | |
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