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Walter Isaacson
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Rolande Glicenstein
Characters of days. In slow time the unspoken passions of the two young men transform into signals of their purity for each other, even as they disappoint. Millions of men…
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A graphic biography, first installment. It opens in Berlin at the start of World War I. 23-year-old Walter Benjamin meets Gerhard Scholem, 17. They become fast friends. Benjamin is already…
Phillip Homburg
Walter Benjamin and the Post-Kantian Tradition engages with Benjamin as a theorist of a historical and philosophical problematic, and demonstrates how Benjamin moves from an aspiring idealist philosopher to a…
Sigrid Weigel
Originally published in German under the title Die Kreatur, das Heilige, die Bilder S. Fischer Verlage GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, 2008 –T.p. verso.
Dr Elizabeth Stewart
Shows how Benjamin’s thoughts regarding the individual’s experience of the material world make significant contact with post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
With his powerful thought image of the constellation, Walter Benjamin provides a method for the core practices of the Humanities: reading, writing, and thinking.
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Bringing together the best critical essays on one of the most fascinating literary figures of our time, this book immediately takes its place as a major source for Benjamin scholarship.
Terry Eagleton
Part of Radical Thinkers series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers.
This collection explores, in Adorno’s description, Benjamin’s “philosophy directed against philosophy .‘ The essays cover all aspects of his writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and…
Michele Salonia
Die Schriften Walter Benjamins stellen ein unvergleichlich aufschlussreiches Repertoire fur das Studium von Kritik bereit. Sie zeigen, dass sich Kritik, sei es die der Gesellschaft, des Rechts oder der Kunst…
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M. Kohlenbach
Walter Benjamin’s work represents a response to the problems of twentieth-century culture and society. This interpretation analyzes some of the central enigmatic features of his writing, arguing that they result…
This new interpretation analyzes some of the central enigmatic features of his writing, arguing that they result from the co-presence of religious scepticism and the desire for a religious foundation…
Walter Benjamin is one of the most important figures of modern culture. The authors focus within this book on Benjamin as a philosopher, but also as a writer. Philosophical and…
Graeme Gilloch
aeo A timely and highly accessible study of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century. aeo The author sheds new light on Benjamina…
Jaeho Kang
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century, offered a unique insight into the profound impact of the media on modern society. Jaeho…
Walter Benjamin
Called the most important critic of his time by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years. Suitable for any scholar wrestling with Benjamin’s work, this…
Alex Coles,Andrzej Klimowski,Howard Caygill
A Graphic Guide to Walter Benjamin, tracing his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history as well as his particular focus on the tension between Marxism and Zionism, and between…
Concu tout d'abord, entre 1927 et 1929, comme une feerie dialectique proche, par l'inspiration, des deambulations surrealistes de Breton et surtout d'Aragon, le projet d'essai sur les passages parisiens changea…
Walter Benjamin: Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert. Fassung letzter Hand Vollstandige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Lesser Ury, Berliner Strassenszene, 1910…
Walter Benjamin: Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit. Die drei deutschen Fassungen in einem Band Vollstandige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung…
Walter Benjamin: Deutsche Menschen. Eine Folge von Briefen Lesefreundlicher Grossdruck in 16-pt-Schrift Grossformat, 210 x 297 mm Berliner Ausgabe, 2021 Durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Theodor Borken Auswahl und…
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.
Aus dem Buch: Die notwendige Richtung aufs Extreme, als welche in philosophischen Untersuchungen die Norm der Begriffsbildung gibt, hat f r eine Darstellung vom Ursprung des deutschen Barocktrauerspiels zweierlei zu…
First translated in English in 1973, this is a study of the French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire. It should be useful as a text for readers of both Benjamin and…
Deals with surrealism, Brecht, Berlin, Paris, Moscow, Marseilles, Naples, violence, fate, language, and character.
One of the great cultural critics of the twentieth century offers a strikingly personal meditation on his career as a book collector and on the strange relations that spring up…
Walter Benjamin discusses whether art is diminished by the modern culture of mass replication, arriving at the conclusion that the aura or soul of an artwork is indeed removed by…
An attempt by literary critic Walter Benjamin to analyze the changed experience of art in modern society.
Andrew Benjamin
This book provides a highly original approach to the writings of the twentieth-century German philosopher Walter Benjamin by one of his most distinguished readers.
Benjamin’s famous Work of Art essay sets out his boldest thoughts-on media and on culture in general. This book contains the second, and most daring, of the four versions of…
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Franziska Loth
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Theorien, Modelle, Begriffe, Note: 2,3, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena (Philosophische Fakultat, Lehrstuhl fur Geschichte u. AEsthetik der Medien), Veranstaltung: Einfuhrung in…
Kerry S. Walters
A Renaissance man in a Revolutionary time, Benjamin Franklin had interests and knowledge not only in religion but in literature, philosophy, politics, publishing, history, and scientific inquiry, among many other…
John Loughrey
A serious storm in a suburban New Jersey neighborhood throws together two young creatures on opposite ends of the food chain--a worm and a blue jay. Together they now have…
Carlo Salzani
How to read Walter Benjamin today? This book argues that the proper way is through an approach which recognizes and respects his own peculiar theorization of the act of reading…
Stephane Symons
In Walter Benjamin. Presence of Mind, Failure to Comprehend Stephane Symons offers an innovative reading of the work of German philosopher, essayist and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) that characterizes…
James Martel
Divine Violence maintains that the apparent unavoidability of sovereignty, to which many thinkers have succumbed, can be overcome with the assistance of Walter Benjamin.
