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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... political line is demanded of the poet ; on the other , it is justifiable to expect his work to have quality . Such a formulation is of course unsatisfactory as long as the connection between the two factors , political line and quality ...
... political line is demanded of the poet ; on the other , it is justifiable to expect his work to have quality . Such a formulation is of course unsatisfactory as long as the connection between the two factors , political line and quality ...
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... political , rather than purely theoretical , considerations of having first distinguished them . He con- trasts them as the political and the proletarian general strike . They are also antithetical in their relation to violence . Of the ...
... political , rather than purely theoretical , considerations of having first distinguished them . He con- trasts them as the political and the proletarian general strike . They are also antithetical in their relation to violence . Of the ...
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... political , but only a religious meaning . To have repudiated with utmost vehemence the political significance of theocracy is the cardinal merit of Bloch's Spirit of Utopia . The order of the profane should be erected on the idea of ...
... political , but only a religious meaning . To have repudiated with utmost vehemence the political significance of theocracy is the cardinal merit of Bloch's Spirit of Utopia . The order of the profane should be erected on the idea of ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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