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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... linguistic theory threatens to fall , and to survive sus- pended precisely over this abyss is its task . The distinction between a mental entity and the linguistic entity in which it communicates is the first stage of any study of ...
... linguistic theory threatens to fall , and to survive sus- pended precisely over this abyss is its task . The distinction between a mental entity and the linguistic entity in which it communicates is the first stage of any study of ...
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... linguistic being . Mental is identical with linguistic being only insofar as it is capable of communication . What is communicable in a mental entity is its linguistic entity . Language therefore communicates the particular linguistic ...
... linguistic being . Mental is identical with linguistic being only insofar as it is capable of communication . What is communicable in a mental entity is its linguistic entity . Language therefore communicates the particular linguistic ...
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... linguistic being , not its verbal meanings , defines its frontier . The linguistic being of things is their language ; this proposi- tion , applied to man , means : the linguistic being of man is his language . Which signifies : man ...
... linguistic being , not its verbal meanings , defines its frontier . The linguistic being of things is their language ; this proposi- tion , applied to man , means : the linguistic being of man is his language . Which signifies : man ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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