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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... magical realm of words . And it is as magical experiments with words , not as artistic dabbling , that we must ... magic for- mulas , and concepts are here intermingled is shown by the following words of Apollinaire's from his last ...
... magical realm of words . And it is as magical experiments with words , not as artistic dabbling , that we must ... magic for- mulas , and concepts are here intermingled is shown by the following words of Apollinaire's from his last ...
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... magical ( for there is also a magic of matter ) . The incom- parable feature of human language is that its magical commu- nity with things is immaterial and purely mental , and the symbol of this is sound . The Bible expresses this ...
... magical ( for there is also a magic of matter ) . The incom- parable feature of human language is that its magical commu- nity with things is immaterial and purely mental , and the symbol of this is sound . The Bible expresses this ...
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... magic . The word must communicate something ( other than itself ) . That is really the Fall of language - mind . The ... magic is different from that of name , but equally magical . This judging word expels the first human beings from ...
... magic . The word must communicate something ( other than itself ) . That is really the Fall of language - mind . The ... magic is different from that of name , but equally magical . This judging word expels the first human beings from ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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