Selected Writings: 1935-1938

Selected Writings: 1935-1938

Author: Walter Benjamin

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780674008960

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Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.


Selected Writings: 1938-1940

Selected Writings: 1938-1940

Author: Walter Benjamin

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780674010765

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Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.


Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

Author: Walter Benjamin

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781927354117

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A collection of fabricated essays, lectures and interviews, supposedly by Walter Benjamin.


Selected Writings: 1913-1926

Selected Writings: 1913-1926

Author: Walter Benjamin

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 9780674945852

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Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting and much more.


The Storyteller

The Storyteller

Author: Walter Benjamin

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2016-07-26

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1784783072

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A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short stories The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance of games, and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling and fortune-telling, and explore the themes that defined Benjamin. The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection are brought to life by the playful imagery of the modernist artist and Bauhaus figure Paul Klee.


Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

Author: Howard Eiland

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-01-20

Total Pages: 766

ISBN-13: 0674726200

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Walter Benjamin was perhaps the twentieth century's most elusive intellectual. His writings defy categorization, and his improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. In a major new biography, Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings present a comprehensive portrait of the man and his times, as well as extensive commentary on his work.


Storm of the Century

Storm of the Century

Author: Willie Drye

Publisher: National Geographic Society

Published: 2003-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780792241034

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A gripping chronicle of the most powerful hurricane to ever hit the United States and its devastating aftermath details the fiercest storm of September 1935 from the perspectives of survivors of the storm, Federal Emergency Relief Administration employees, and government officials. Reprint.


Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 1

Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 1

Author: Alfred Hitchcock

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2015-01-10

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0520960947

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Gathered here for the first time are Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this ample selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock provides an enlivening commentary on a career that spanned decades and transformed the history of the cinema. Bringing the same exuberance and originality to his writing as he did to his films, he ranges from accounts of his own life and experiences to techniques of filmmaking and ideas about cinema in general. Wry, thoughtful, witty, and humorous—as well as brilliantly informative—this selection reveals another side of the most renowned filmmaker of our time. Sidney Gottlieb not only presents some of Hitchcock's most important pieces, but also places them in their historical context and in the context of Hitchcock's development as a director. He reflects on Hitchcock's complicated, often troubled, and continually evolving relationships with women, both on and off the set. Some of the topics Hitchcock touches upon are the differences between English and American attitudes toward murder, the importance of comedy in film, and the uses and techniques of lighting. There are also many anecdotes of life among the stars, reminiscences from the sets of some of the most successful and innovative films of this century, and incisive insights into working method, film history, and the role of film in society. Unlike some of the complex critical commentary that has emerged on his life and work, the director's own writing style is refreshingly straightforward and accessible. Throughout the collection, Hitchcock reveals a delight and curiosity about his medium that bring all his subjects to life.


Walter Benjamin's Other History

Walter Benjamin's Other History

Author: Beatrice Hanssen

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000-12-04

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0520226844

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In this study, Beatrice Hanssen unlocks the philosophical and ethical dimensions of the Trauerspiel study, showing how its thematics persisted well into the later writings of the thirties. For by introducing the materialistic category of natural history in The Origin of German Tragic Drama, Benjamin not only criticized idealistic conceptions of history writing but also expressed an ethico-theological call for another kind of history, one no longer anthropocentric in nature. This profound critique of historical thinking, Hanssen shows, went hand in hand with a radical de-limitation of the human subject, informed by his interest in questions about ethics, the law, and justice. Through an analysis of the seemingly innocuous figures of stones, animals, and angels that are scattered throughout his writings, Hanssen reconstructs the often neglected ethical dimension of his historical thought. In the course of doing so, she not only places Benjamin's work in the context of contemporaries such as Adorno, Cohen, Lukacs, Kafka, Kraus, and Heidegger but also demonstrates the persistence of Benjaminian themes in contemporary philosophy and critical theory.