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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... precisely thereby calls it back to its origin . It appears , now with rhyme and reason , sonorously , congruously in the structure of a new text . As rhyme it gathers the similar into its aura ; as name it stands alone and ...
... precisely thereby calls it back to its origin . It appears , now with rhyme and reason , sonorously , congruously in the structure of a new text . As rhyme it gathers the similar into its aura ; as name it stands alone and ...
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... precisely -in primitive conditions that know hardly the beginnings of constitutional relations , and even in cases where the victor has established himself in invulnerable possession , a peace cere- mony is entirely necessary . Indeed ...
... precisely -in primitive conditions that know hardly the beginnings of constitutional relations , and even in cases where the victor has established himself in invulnerable possession , a peace cere- mony is entirely necessary . Indeed ...
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... precisely in its language— this view , taken as a hypothesis , is the great abyss into which all linguistic theory threatens to fall , and to survive sus- pended precisely over this abyss is its task . The distinction between a mental ...
... precisely in its language— this view , taken as a hypothesis , is the great abyss into which all linguistic theory threatens to fall , and to survive sus- pended precisely over this abyss is its task . The distinction between a mental ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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