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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... mind , of the demon . Idle chatter is its true substance , and every feuilleton poses anew the insoluble question of the relationship between the forces of stupidity and malice , whose expression is gossip . It is , fundamentally , the ...
... mind , of the demon . Idle chatter is its true substance , and every feuilleton poses anew the insoluble question of the relationship between the forces of stupidity and malice , whose expression is gossip . It is , fundamentally , the ...
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... mind to sex- uality . In face of this reality , however , to which Kraus exposed him- self more harrowingly than any other , the " pure mind " that his followers worship in the master's activity is revealed as a worthless chimera . For ...
... mind to sex- uality . In face of this reality , however , to which Kraus exposed him- self more harrowingly than any other , the " pure mind " that his followers worship in the master's activity is revealed as a worthless chimera . For ...
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... mind , but on language - mind confined to things , even if in consummate beauty . " Language , the mother of rea- son and revelation , its alpha and omega , " says Hamann . Language itself is not perfectly expressed in things them ...
... mind , but on language - mind confined to things , even if in consummate beauty . " Language , the mother of rea- son and revelation , its alpha and omega , " says Hamann . Language itself is not perfectly expressed in things them ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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