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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... sign was mere convention pushed him on to courageous speculations about the sign and the mimetic urge of mankind , and his later interest in the technology of the new media forcefully widened his thinking about signs to include problems ...
... sign was mere convention pushed him on to courageous speculations about the sign and the mimetic urge of mankind , and his later interest in the technology of the new media forcefully widened his thinking about signs to include problems ...
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... signs attain . Only from an airplane does one have a view of the industrial élite of the city , the film and automobile industries . Mostly , how- ever , the roofs of Moscow are a lifeless wasteland , having neither the dazzling ...
... signs attain . Only from an airplane does one have a view of the industrial élite of the city , the film and automobile industries . Mostly , how- ever , the roofs of Moscow are a lifeless wasteland , having neither the dazzling ...
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... signs because it is situated above the immediately visible level . The system of characterological signs is generally confined to the body , if we disregard the characterological significance of those signs in- vestigated by the ...
... signs because it is situated above the immediately visible level . The system of characterological signs is generally confined to the body , if we disregard the characterological significance of those signs in- vestigated by the ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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