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Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 890
ISBN-13: 9780674945869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprising 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.
Author: Walter Benjamin
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781927354117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of fabricated essays, lectures and interviews, supposedly by Walter Benjamin.
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9780674945852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven 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.
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780674174153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe legendary correspondence between the critic Walter Benjamin and the historian Gershom Scholem bears indispensable witness to the inner lives of two remarkable and enigmatic personalities. Benjamin, acknowledged today as one of the leading literary and social critics of his day, was known during his lifetime by only a small circle of his friends and intellectual confreres. Scholem recognized the genius of his friend and mentor during their student days in Berlin, and the two began to correspond after Scholem's emigration to Palestine. Their impassioned exchange draws the reader into the very heart of their complex relationship during the anguished years from 1932 until Benjamin's death in 1940.
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0805202412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWalter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations 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. Also included are his penetrating study "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and Benjamin's 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 dark times. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times.
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780674010765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprising 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.
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2021-06-22
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1503627683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contemporaneous texts to which his essay refers. Readers thus encounter for the first time in English provocative arguments about law and violence advanced by Hermann Cohen, Kurt Hiller, Erich Unger, and Emil Lederer. A new translation of selections from Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence further illuminates Benjamin's critical program. The volume also includes, for the first time in any language, a bibliography Benjamin drafted for the expansion of the essay and the development of a corresponding philosophy of law. An extensive introduction and afterword provide additional context. With its challenging argument concerning violence, law, and justice—which addresses such topical matters as police violence, the death penalty, and the ambiguous force of religion—Benjamin's work is as important today as it was upon its publication in Weimar Germany a century ago.
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780674008960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprising 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.
Author: Howard Eiland
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014-01-20
Total Pages: 766
ISBN-13: 0674726200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWalter 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.
Author: Carlo Salzani
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2021-07-28
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1527573168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe striking actuality of Walter Benjamin’s work does not rest on a supposed “usefulness” of his philosophy for current concerns, but rather on the high “legibility” to which his oeuvre has come in the present. Indeed, this legibility is a function of critique, which unearths the truth-content of a work in a constellation of reading with the present, and assures thereby that the work lives on. Following this methodological tenet, this book approaches Benjamin’s work with two foci: the actuality of his critique of violence, a central and unavoidable topic in the contemporary political-philosophical debate, and the actuality of his critique of experience, which perhaps is not as conspicuous as that of his critique of violence but constitutes, nonetheless, the bedrock upon which his whole philosophy rests.
