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    One-Way Street and Other Writings

    Walter Benjamin

    Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This title brings together Benjamin’s major works…

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    Walter Benjamin

    Terry Eagleton

    The classic study of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, by the great of socialist critic

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    The Storyteller Essays

    Walter Benjamin,Tess Lewis,Walter Benjamin

    A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin’s work as it pertains to his famous essay, The Storyteller, this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of…

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    Walter Benjamin: A Little History of Photography

    Walter Benjamin

    An extraordinary document in the history of photographic criticism.

    Perhaps more than any other text, A Little History of Photography by the German-Jewish thinker Walter Benjamin has shaped the way…

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    Radio Benjamin

    Walter Benjamin

    This collection of the legendary thinker’s radio broadcasts brings together some of his most accessible and fascinating thinking.

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    Aesthetics and Politics

    Bertolt Brecht,Ernst Bloch,Georg Lukacs,Theodor Adorno

    An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature

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    Dreams: Walter Benjamin

    Walter Benjamin

    Though published during his lifetime, Walter Benjamin's dream notes and theoretical reflections on dreams are collected here for the first time in a single volume.

    Dreams highlights a dimension of…

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    Correspondence 1930-1940

    Gretel Adorno, Walter Benjamin

    'We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon.' So…

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    Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings: 1913-1926

    Walter Benjamin

    This first volume shows that even as a young man Walter Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love…

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    Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition

    Walter Benjamin

    Marking 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…

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    The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    Walter Benjamin

    Explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this…

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    The Origin of German Tragic Drama

    Walter Benjamin

    Benjamin’s most sustained and original work, and one of the main sources of literary modernism

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    On Goethe

    Walter Benjamin

    On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin's reflections on the central figure in modern German culture. The writings in this volume-newly translated, fully annotated, and framed by an…

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    On Goethe

    Walter Benjamin

    On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin's reflections on the central figure in modern German culture. The writings in this volume-newly translated, fully annotated, and framed by an…

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    Walter Benjamin

    Gershom Gerhard Scholem

    The great Jewish scholar shares his insights into philosopher Walter Benjamin, a childhood friend who committed suicide in 1940. Reprint.

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    Understanding Brecht

    Walter Benjamin

    In this volume we find collected together Benjamin's most sensitive and probing writing on the dramatic and poetic work of his friend and tutor Bertolt Brecht. Benjamin's work still exerts…

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    Walter Benjamin’s Grave

    Michael T. Taussig

    In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in…

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    Walter Benjamin and Cultural Translation

    Birgit Haberpeuntner

    Dissecting the radical impact of Walter Benjamin on contemporary cultural, postcolonial and translation theory, this book investigates the translation and reception of Benjamin's most famous text about translation, "The Task…

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    Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci

    This book marks a missed encounter between two of the most influential Marxists thinkers of our age, Walter Benjamin, and Antonio Gramsci, studied here for the first-time side by side…

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    Walter Benjamin and Political Theology

    Tracing Walter Benjamin's convergences with, and divergences from, influential German legal theorist Carl Schmitt, this edited collection contextualizes Benjamin's thinking in the intellectual currents of his time, while also placing…

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    Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci

    This book marks a missed encounter between two of the most influential Marxists thinkers of our age, Walter Benjamin, and Antonio Gramsci, studied here for the first-time side by side…

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    Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea

    C.D. Rose

    Welcome to the fictional universe of C. D. Rose, whose stories seem to be set in some unidentifiable but vaguely Mitteleuropean nation, and likewise have an uncanny sense of timelessness…

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    One-Way Street: And Other Writings

    Walter Benjamin

    Classic collection of Walter Benjamin’s essay, including some of his most celebrated essays

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    Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Political Economy

    Duy Lap Nguyen

    Exploring the connections between Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history and a Marxian Critique of Political Economy, Duy Lap Nguyen analyses Benjamin's early writings and their development into a distinct understanding…

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    Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History

    Eli Friedlander

    In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong to…

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    Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History

    Eli Friedlander

    In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong to…

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    The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

    Walter Benjamin

    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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    Introducing Walter Benjamin: A Graphic Guide

    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…

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    Working with Walter Benjamin: Recovering a Political Philosophy

    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.

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    City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin

    Vincenzo Mele

    This book reconstructs and compares the social theories of modernity of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, two classic thinkers in German social thought. The author focuses on five main topics…

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    Illuminations

    Walter Benjamin

    Features ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, ‘The Task of the Translator’ and ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’, as well as essays on Kafka, storytelling…

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    Text as Dance

    Mark Franko

    This book offers a groundbreaking investigation into issues of gender, power and the representation of sovereignty in French Baroque court ballet - and in today's performances that recall them.

    Mark…

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    Walter Benjamin Reimagined: A Graphic Translation of Poetry, Prose, Aphorisms, and Dreams

    Frances Cannon (Artist)

    An illuminated tour of Walter Benjamin’s ideas; a graphic translation; an encyclopedia of fragments.       

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    Celebrating the Name Benjamin

    Walter the Educator

    Celebrating the Name Benjamin is a little collectible poem book that belongs to the Poetry of First Names Book Series by Walter the Educator.

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    Walter Benjamin

    Uwe Steiner

    Zu Lebzeiten als Germanist gescheitert, nach seinem Tode als Ideengeber der Literatur und Philosophie geschatzt. Warum erscheint Benjamins Denken heute so aktuell? Immer wieder variierte er in Essays und Kritiken…

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    Walter Benjamin

    Norbert Bolz,Willem Van Reijen

    Benjamin’s writings are a curious mixture of esoteric, sometimes mystical Jewish thought, artistic modernism, and unorthodox Marxism. This title proceeds from the standpoint that Benjamin’s thought was shaped by his…

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    Walter Benjamin

    Esther Leslie

    Walter Benjamin, critic, essayist, translator, philosopher one of the twentieth century’s most influential intellectuals continues to intrigue. This book acknowledges Benjamin’s thesis that personal histories can be traced only in…

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    Walter Benjamin and Romanticism

    This text explores the enduring relationship between Walter Benjamin’s literary and philosophical work and the tradition of German romanticism, as well as Holderlin and Goethe.

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    Inheriting Walter Benjamin

    Professor Gerhard Richter (Brown University, USA)

    Gerhard Richter examines, in the work of Walter Benjamin, one of the central problems of modernity: the question of how to receive an intellectual inheritance. Covering aspects of Benjamin’s complex…

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    Inheriting Walter Benjamin

    Professor Gerhard Richter (Brown University, USA)

    Gerhard Richter examines, in the work of Walter Benjamin, one of the central problems of modernity: the question of how to receive an intellectual inheritance.

    Covering aspects of Benjamin’s complex…

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    Walter Benjamin: A Biography

    Momme Brodersen

    A comprehensive biography of Walter Benjamin, an original and influential thinker of the 20th century. Brodersen stresses that during the Weimar Republic, Benjamin had been an important critic whose essays…

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    Walter Benjamin Critique

    Si Benjamin n'a jamais acheve la redaction d'un essai consacre a la critique, elle n'en est pas moins une des preoccupations principales de son travail philosophique et un fil de…

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    Walter Benjamin and Art

    Andrew Benjamin (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

    Walter Benjamin’s most famous and influential essay remains The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. This is the first book to provide a broad and dedicated analysis…

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    Walter Benjamin and History

    Andrew Benjamin (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

    The first book to examine in detail Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History Benjamin’s collection of fragments, Theses on the Philosophy of History, play a determining role in how…

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    The Late Walter Benjamin

    John Schad

    Explores the life and thought of Walter Benjamin, imaginatively examining its implications in the political context of a post-War London estate. This title explores the emergence of Benjamin’s thinking from…

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    The Late Walter Benjamin

    John Schad

    Explores the life and thought of Walter Benjamin, imaginatively examining its implications in the political context of a post-War London estate. This title explores the emergence of Benjamin’s thinking from…

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    In the Language of Walter Benjamin

    Carol Jacobs

    How does one read an author who tells us that writing does not communicate very much to the reader? This study of Walter Benjamin attempts to come to terms with…

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    Walter Benjamin and Architecture

    Drawing from Walter Benjamin’s ideas, the essays compiled in this book contribute to a critical understanding of contemporary architectural theories.

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