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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... 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 . I turned ...
... 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 . I turned ...
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... writing in the bourgeois press proves to be the formula for its revival in that of Soviet Russia . For as writing gains in breadth what it loses in depth , the conventional distinction between author and public , which is upheld by the ...
... writing in the bourgeois press proves to be the formula for its revival in that of Soviet Russia . For as writing gains in breadth what it loses in depth , the conventional distinction between author and public , which is upheld by the ...
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... writer can only demonstrate in his particular activity : that is , in writing . A political tendency is the necessary , never the sufficient condition of the organizing function of a work . This further requires a directing ...
... writer can only demonstrate in his particular activity : that is , in writing . A political tendency is the necessary , never the sufficient condition of the organizing function of a work . This further requires a directing ...
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A Berlin Chronicle | 3 |
OneWay Street selection | 61 |
Moscow | 97 |
Urheberrecht | |
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