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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... sense of justice may find itself thereby . It will be objected that such a function of violence is fortuitous and isolated . This can be rebutted by a consideration of military violence . The possibility of military law rests on exactly ...
... sense of justice may find itself thereby . It will be objected that such a function of violence is fortuitous and isolated . This can be rebutted by a consideration of military violence . The possibility of military law rests on exactly ...
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... sense to any knowledge , for they name newborn children . In a strict sense , no name ought ( in its etymological meaning ) to correspond to any person , for the proper name is the word of God in human sounds , By it each man is guaran ...
... sense to any knowledge , for they name newborn children . In a strict sense , no name ought ( in its etymological meaning ) to correspond to any person , for the proper name is the word of God in human sounds , By it each man is guaran ...
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... sense , and this very knowledge is itself the only evil known to the paradisiac state . Knowledge of good and evil abandons name , it is a knowledge from outside , the uncreated imitation of the creative word . Name steps outside itself ...
... sense , and this very knowledge is itself the only evil known to the paradisiac state . Knowledge of good and evil abandons name , it is a knowledge from outside , the uncreated imitation of the creative word . Name steps outside itself ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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