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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... thought a half - hidden thirst for violence ( more poetic than political ) , ill according with his life in the library and his later will to believe in revolutionary discipline . His studies of Sorel and his defense of anarchist ...
... thought a half - hidden thirst for violence ( more poetic than political ) , ill according with his life in the library and his later will to believe in revolutionary discipline . His studies of Sorel and his defense of anarchist ...
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... thought , but writing commands it . 7. Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas . Literary honor requires that one break off only at an ap- pointed moment ( a mealtime , a meeting ) or at the end of the work . 8. Fill the ...
... thought , but writing commands it . 7. Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas . Literary honor requires that one break off only at an ap- pointed moment ( a mealtime , a meeting ) or at the end of the work . 8. Fill the ...
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... thoughts have a special place in dialectical thinking because their sole function is to direct theory toward practice . They are direc- tives toward practice , not for it : action can , of course , be as subtle as thought . But a thought ...
... thoughts have a special place in dialectical thinking because their sole function is to direct theory toward practice . They are direc- tives toward practice , not for it : action can , of course , be as subtle as thought . But a thought ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
Urheberrecht | |
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