Reflections : essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings

Reflections Essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings

Walter Benjamin, 1892-1940

Book - 2019

"A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work"--

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Subjects
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940 > Translations into English.
Published
Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019.
Language
English
German
Main Author
Walter Benjamin, 1892-1940 (author)
Other Authors
Peter Demetz, 1922- (editor), E. F. N. Jephcott (translator)
Edition
First Mariner books edition
Physical Description
xlv, 369 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781328470225
  • A Berlin chronicle
  • One-way street (selection)
  • Moscow
  • Marseilles
  • Hashish in Marseilles
  • Paris, capital of the nineteenth century
  • Naples
  • Surrealism
  • Brecht's 'Threepenny novel'
  • Conversations with Brecht
  • The author as producer
  • Karl Kraus
  • Critique of violence
  • The destructive character
  • Fate and character
  • Theologico-political fragment
  • On language and such and on the language of man
  • On the mimetic faculty.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

An extraordinary collection of writings of a major modern thinker and cultural critic, this is a companion volume to Illuminations, edited by Hannah Arendt. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, recounts Berlin in the '20s, recalls conversations with Brecht, provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin. PW called this ``haunting, brilliant, modern.'' (April) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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