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Uwe Steiner
Offers a comprehensive introduction to the oeuvre of German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). This title traces the development of Benjamin’s thought chronologically through his writings…
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Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate readers and influence academic writing, both stylistically and conceptually. This title offers…
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P Oyarzun
A leading Latin American thinker examines the work of Walter Benjamin and demonstrates its relevance for our understanding of justice –
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Walter Benjamin
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…
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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…
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.
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…
A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short stories
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Sigrid Weigel
Eleven essays examining the work of German modernist thinker Walter Benjamin, with a central theme of Benjamin as theorist.
Alex Betancourt
Walter Benjamin said that the realization of dream elements, in the course of waking up, is the paradigm of dialectical thinking. Thus dialectical thinking is the organ of historical awakening…
In the past two and a half decades, Walter Benjamin’s early essay ‘Towards the Critique of Violence’ (1921) has taken a central place in politico-philosophic debates. The complexity and perhaps…
James R. Martel
A radical critique of contemporary legal practices and understandings based on a new consideration of Walter Benjamin’s Critique of Violence
This correspondence between the critic Walter Benjamin and the historian Gershom Scholem began after their student days in Berlin when Scholem emigrated to Palestine. Their correspondence draws the reader into…
Susanne Heil
Revision of the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universiteat Bremen, 1993.
Monad Rrenban
Through reading the early work of Walter Benjamin-up to and including the Trauerspiel, author Monad Rrenban elicits a cohesive conception of the wild, inforgettable form, philosophy, as inherent in everything…
Through reading the early work of Walter Benjamin, up to and including The Trauerspiel , this book elicits a cohesive conception of the wild, unforgettable form, philosophy, as inherent in…
Kai-Uwe Hasenheit
Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 1994 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Theoretische (Erkenntnis, Wissenschaft, Logik, Sprache), Note: 1, Universiteit Leiden (Philosophische Fakultat), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit betrifft das Verhaltnis der Kunst…
Antoine Berman,Isabelle Berman,Valentina Sommella
The Age of Translation is the first English translation of Antoine Berman’s commentary on Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay ‘The Task of the Translator’. Chantal Wright’s translation includes an introduction which…
Nathan Ross
This book provides a study of Walter Benjamin’s first philosophy in two senses: it focuses on his early philosophy as a source of insight into his later works, and it…
Vicente Valero
First published in 2001 by Editorial Penainsula.
James Martel
Engaging political and literary luminaries in an alternative narrative about power
Angeliki Spiropoulou
This book analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf’s historiographical imagination and…
Carlo Salzani
The 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…
Robert Ryder
With Walter Benjamin’s notion of the optical unconscious as its starting point, this monograph develops a theory of the acoustical unconscious that refers both to the broadening of acoustic apperception…
Tyson E. Lewis
A comprehensive study of education in the writings of Walter Benjamin.
Michael Loewy
This illuminating study of Benjamin’s final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher
Margaret Cohen
Analyzes the links between Breton’s surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Marxism and Walter Benjamin’s post-Enlightenment challenge to Marxist theory. This title argues that Breton’s surrealist Marxism played a formative role…
Walter Benjamin: Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften Lesefreundlicher Grossdruck in 16-pt-Schrift Grossformat, 210 x 297 mm Berliner Ausgabe, 2021 Durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Theodor Borken Erstdruck in: Neue Deutsche Beitrage. 1924/1925…
