Selected Writings: 1938-1940

Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674010765
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 492

Book Description
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.

Berlin Childhood Around 1900

Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674022225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
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.

Fire Alarm

Author: Michael Lowy
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1784786438
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
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.

The Writer of Modern Life

Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674022874
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
"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.

Reflections

Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547711166
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 419

Book Description
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

Selected Writings: 1927-1934

Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674945869
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 890

Walter Benjamin

Author: Terry Eagleton
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 178960477X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.

Walter Benjamin

Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927354117
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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

One-Way Street

Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839761679
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
A classic collection of Walter Benjamin's essays, including some of his most celebrated writing Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions. This collection, introduced by Susan Sontag, contains the most representative and illuminating selection of his work over a twenty-year period, and thus does full justice to the richness and the multi-dimensional nature of his thought. Included in these pages are aphorisms and townscapes, esoteric meditation and reminiscences of childhood, and reflections on language, psychology, aesthetics and politics.

The Origin of German Tragic Drama

Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1789604737
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
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.