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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... matter ; to scatter it as one scatters earth , to turn it over as one turns over soil . For the matter itself is only a deposit , a stratum , which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden ...
... matter ; to scatter it as one scatters earth , to turn it over as one turns over soil . For the matter itself is only a deposit , a stratum , which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden ...
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... matter from the area of sexual problems , this shows clearly the foreshortened perspective in which European matters ap- pear from here . But if one of Russia's leading authors , in con- versation , quotes Shakespeare as one of the ...
... matter from the area of sexual problems , this shows clearly the foreshortened perspective in which European matters ap- pear from here . But if one of Russia's leading authors , in con- versation , quotes Shakespeare as one of the ...
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... matters , but the kind of man these opinions make of him . " Now it is true that opinions matter greatly , but the best are of no use if they make nothing useful out of those who have them . The best political tendency is wrong if it ...
... matters , but the kind of man these opinions make of him . " Now it is true that opinions matter greatly , but the best are of no use if they make nothing useful out of those who have them . The best political tendency is wrong if it ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
Urheberrecht | |
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