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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... whole within them , while the whole , standing out there before me , has lost its details without trace . The first fragment to reappear is what was certainly , throughout my whole time at school , the idlest of my perceptions : the ...
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... whole is finely stitched to- gether with punctuation , and he pays the waiter , his assistant , in cash . THIS SPACE FOR RENT Fools lament the decay of criticism . For its day is long past . Criticism is a matter of correct distancing ...
... whole is finely stitched to- gether with punctuation , and he pays the waiter , his assistant , in cash . THIS SPACE FOR RENT Fools lament the decay of criticism . For its day is long past . Criticism is a matter of correct distancing ...
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... Whole trades are based on the spectacle . Newspaper boys drag out the names of their wares , Roma and the Corriere di Napoli , as though they were sticks of gum . Their trumpeting is part of urban manufacture . Trade , deeply rooted in ...
... Whole trades are based on the spectacle . Newspaper boys drag out the names of their wares , Roma and the Corriere di Napoli , as though they were sticks of gum . Their trumpeting is part of urban manufacture . Trade , deeply rooted in ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
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