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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... lights on a foggy night have around them gigantic rings , my earliest theatrical impressions emerge from the mist of my ... light , the actual happening on the stage , I can no longer discern in so much luminous haze . A pinkish - gray ...
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... lights than are permitted in any other great city . And the cones of light they project are so dazzling that anyone caught in them stands helplessly rooted to the spot . In the blinding light before the Kremlin gate the guards stand in ...
... lights than are permitted in any other great city . And the cones of light they project are so dazzling that anyone caught in them stands helplessly rooted to the spot . In the blinding light before the Kremlin gate the guards stand in ...
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... light is thrown on the nature of violence by the fact that such a criterion or distinction can be applied to it at all , or , in other words , what is the meaning of this distinction ? That this distinction supplied by positive law is ...
... light is thrown on the nature of violence by the fact that such a criterion or distinction can be applied to it at all , or , in other words , what is the meaning of this distinction ? That this distinction supplied by positive law is ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
Urheberrecht | |
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