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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... kind of figure and is more easily memorable . I should like to say : it shrinks and takes on the form of a flower . To begin to solve the riddle of the ecstasy of trance , one ought to meditate on Ariadne's thread . What joy in the mere ...
... kind of figure and is more easily memorable . I should like to say : it shrinks and takes on the form of a flower . To begin to solve the riddle of the ecstasy of trance , one ought to meditate on Ariadne's thread . What joy in the mere ...
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... kind of strike not so much causes as consummates . For this reason , the first of these undertakings is lawmaking but the second anarchistic . Taking up occasional statements by Marx , Sorel rejects every kind of program , of utopia ...
... kind of strike not so much causes as consummates . For this reason , the first of these undertakings is lawmaking but the second anarchistic . Taking up occasional statements by Marx , Sorel rejects every kind of program , of utopia ...
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... kind of similarity : above all , the ability to produce it . Nevertheless we , too , possess a canon according to which the meaning of nonsensuous similarity can be at least partly clarified . And this canon is language . From time ...
... kind of similarity : above all , the ability to produce it . Nevertheless we , too , possess a canon according to which the meaning of nonsensuous similarity can be at least partly clarified . And this canon is language . From time ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
Urheberrecht | |
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