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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... violence in mythical manifestations proves closely related , indeed identical to law- making violence , it reflects a problematic light on lawmaking violence , insofar as the latter was characterized above , in the account of military ...
... violence in mythical manifestations proves closely related , indeed identical to law- making violence , it reflects a problematic light on lawmaking violence , insofar as the latter was characterized above , in the account of military ...
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... violence that might be able to call a halt to mythical violence . Just as in all spheres God opposes myth , mythical violence is confronted by the divine . And the latter constitutes its antithesis in all respects . If mythical violence ...
... violence that might be able to call a halt to mythical violence . Just as in all spheres God opposes myth , mythical violence is confronted by the divine . And the latter constitutes its antithesis in all respects . If mythical violence ...
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... violence . The law governing their oscillation rests on the circumstance that all law - preserving violence , in its duration , indirectly weakens the lawmaking violence repre- sented by it , through the suppression of hostile counter- ...
... violence . The law governing their oscillation rests on the circumstance that all law - preserving violence , in its duration , indirectly weakens the lawmaking violence repre- sented by it , through the suppression of hostile counter- ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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