Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings - Brossura

Benjamin, Walter

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ISBN 10: 1328470229 ISBN 13: 9781328470225

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2019

Riassunto

“This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century’s fragments of shattered traditions.” — Time
 
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.
            Benjamin 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.

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PRAISE FOR WALTER BENJAMIN: "There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time."—George Steiner "Benjamin is a legitimate ancestor of much that for the moment is most alive in criticism."—The Nation "This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century's fragments of shattered traditions."—Time

Praise for Walter Benjamin: "There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time."—George Steiner "Benjamin is a legitimate ancestor of much that for the moment is most alive in criticism."—The Nation "This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century's fragments of shattered traditions."—Time

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WALTER BENJAMIN (1892–1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism.

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1328470229
• ISBN 13: 9781328470225
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 369
• Redattore: Demetz Peter