Illuminations: Essays and Reflections - Brossura

Benjamin, Walter

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ISBN 10: 1328470237 ISBN 13: 9781328470232

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2019

Riassunto

“There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time.” — George Steiner
 
Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his theses on the philosophy of history.

Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin’s life in a dark historical era.

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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.
 

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1328470237
• ISBN 13: 9781328470232
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 238
• Redattore: Arendt Hannah