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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... profane ( or historical ) and the Messianic ( or divine ) order ; and he bravely demands that a new philosophy of history ( his own ) try to relate the distinct forces in some way to one another . These forces do not move in a consonant ...
... profane ( or historical ) and the Messianic ( or divine ) order ; and he bravely demands that a new philosophy of history ( his own ) try to relate the distinct forces in some way to one another . These forces do not move in a consonant ...
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... profane illumination of reading about telepathic phenomena . And the most passionate investigation of the hashish trance will not teach us half as much about thinking ( which is eminently narcotic ) , as the profane illumination of ...
... profane illumination of reading about telepathic phenomena . And the most passionate investigation of the hashish trance will not teach us half as much about thinking ( which is eminently narcotic ) , as the profane illumination of ...
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... profane cannot be built up on the idea of the Divine Kingdom , and therefore theocracy has no political , but only a religious meaning . To have repudiated with utmost vehemence the political significance of theocracy is the cardinal ...
... profane cannot be built up on the idea of the Divine Kingdom , and therefore theocracy has no political , but only a religious meaning . To have repudiated with utmost vehemence the political significance of theocracy is the cardinal ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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