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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... side it surpassed my graphic fantasies . The city , as it disclosed itself to me in the footsteps of a hermetic tradition that I can trace back at least as far as Rilke and whose guardian at that time was Franz Hessel , was a maze not ...
... side it surpassed my graphic fantasies . The city , as it disclosed itself to me in the footsteps of a hermetic tradition that I can trace back at least as far as Rilke and whose guardian at that time was Franz Hessel , was a maze not ...
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... side of the writing desk abutted on the wall opposite the window . Sitting and writing at it was the poet , in extreme old age . I was standing to one side when he broke off to give me a small vase , an urn from antiquity , as a present ...
... side of the writing desk abutted on the wall opposite the window . Sitting and writing at it was the poet , in extreme old age . I was standing to one side when he broke off to give me a small vase , an urn from antiquity , as a present ...
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... side of revolu- tion ? In short , have they bound revolt to revolution ? How are we to imagine an existence oriented solely toward Boulevard Bonne - Nouvelle , in rooms by Le Corbusier and Oud ? To win the energies of intoxication for ...
... side of revolu- tion ? In short , have they bound revolt to revolution ? How are we to imagine an existence oriented solely toward Boulevard Bonne - Nouvelle , in rooms by Le Corbusier and Oud ? To win the energies of intoxication for ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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