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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... Mimetic Faculty , " with its sudden shifts of attention and compressed arguments of astonishing range and illuminating suggestions , energetically seeks to close the gap between the universe of things and the world of signs , a gap ...
... Mimetic Faculty , " with its sudden shifts of attention and compressed arguments of astonishing range and illuminating suggestions , energetically seeks to close the gap between the universe of things and the world of signs , a gap ...
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... mimetic faculty does not play a decisive role . This faculty has a history , however , in both the phylogenetic and the ontogenetic sense . As regards the latter , play is for many its school . Children's play is everywhere permeated by ...
... mimetic faculty does not play a decisive role . This faculty has a history , however , in both the phylogenetic and the ontogenetic sense . As regards the latter , play is for many its school . Children's play is everywhere permeated by ...
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... mimetic faculty . For clearly the observable world of modern man contains only minimal residues of the magical correspondences and analogies that were familiar to ancient peoples . The question is whether we are concerned with the decay ...
... mimetic faculty . For clearly the observable world of modern man contains only minimal residues of the magical correspondences and analogies that were familiar to ancient peoples . The question is whether we are concerned with the decay ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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