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.


Fire Alarm

Fire Alarm

Author: Michael Lowy

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1784786438

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This illuminating study of Benjamin’s final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism—Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an “unclassifiable” philosopher. His essay “On the Concept of History” was written in a state of urgency, as he attempted to escape the Gestapo in 1940, before finally committing suicide. In this scrupulous, clear and fascinating examination of this essay, Michael Löwy argues that it remains one of the most important philosophical and political writings of the twentieth century. Looking in detail at Benjamin’s celebrated but often mysterious text, and restoring the philosophical, theological and political context, Löwy highlights the complex relationship between redemption and revolution in Benjamin’s philosophy of history.


Berlin Childhood Around 1900

Berlin Childhood Around 1900

Author: Walter Benjamin

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780674022225

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Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Benjamin's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century is translated into English for the first time in book form.


Military Art of People's War

Military Art of People's War

Author: Vo Nguyen Giap

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2019-02-15

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1583678247

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This collection includes the major writings of General Giap, who, on the evidence of his record as well as his theoretical work, has long been recognized as one of the military geniuses of modern times. The book includes writings from the 1940s to the end of the 1960s.


The Writer of Modern Life

The Writer of Modern Life

Author: Walter Benjamin

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780674022874

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"In this book Benjamin reveals Baudelaire as a social poet of the very first rank. More than a series of studies of Baudelaire, these essays show the extent to which Benjamin identifies with the poet and enable him to explore his own notion of heroism."--BOOK JACKET.


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.


Selected Writings: 1927-1934

Selected Writings: 1927-1934

Author: Walter Benjamin

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 890

ISBN-13: 9780674945869

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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.


Reflections

Reflections

Author: Walter Benjamin

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2019-02-26

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 0547711166

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The towering twentieth century thinker delve into literature, philosophy, and his own life experience in this “extraordinary collection” (Publishers Weekly). 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. “This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century’s fragments of shattered traditions.” —Time


The Origin of German Tragic Drama

The Origin of German Tragic Drama

Author: Walter Benjamin

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1789604737

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The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel. Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer and the theatre of Calderon and Shakespeare. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. Georg Lukacs, an opponent of Benjamin's aesthetics, singled out The Origin of German Tragic Drama as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.