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1. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(1969-01-13)
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Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproductions
Of Benjamin, Dwarfs and Angels
Clarity and Brilliance
Just a quick note
Brilliance |
2. Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 3: 1935-1938 by Walter Benjamin | |
Paperback: 480
Pages
(2006-04-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description The centerpiece, A Berlin Childhood around 1900, marks the first appearance in English of one of the greatest German works of the twentieth century: a profound and beautiful account of the vanished world of Benjamin's privileged boyhood, recollected in exile. No less remarkable are the previously untranslated second version of Benjamin's most famous essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility," with its striking insights into the relations between technology and aesthetics, and German Men and Women, a book in which Benjamin collects twenty-six letters by distinguished Germans from 1783 to 1883 in an effort to preserve what he called the true humanity of German tradition from the debasement of fascism. Volume 3 also offers extensively annotated translations of essays that are key to Benjamin's rewriting of the story of modernism and modernity--such as "The Storyteller" and "Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century"--as well as a fascinating diary from 1938 and penetrating studies of Bertolt Brecht, Franz Kafka, and Eduard Fuchs. A narrative chronology details Benjamin's life during these four harrowing years of his exile in France and Denmark. This is an essential collection for anyone interested in his work. (20021201) |
3. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin | |
Paperback: 448
Pages
(2008-05-31)
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Editorial Review Product Description Benjamin’s famous “Work of Art” essay sets out his boldest thoughts—on media and on culture in general—in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the machine age morph into literature and theory and then back again to images, gestures, and thought. This essay, however, is only the beginning of a vast collection of writings that the editors have assembled to demonstrate what was revolutionary about Benjamin’s explorations on media. Long before Marshall McLuhan, Benjamin saw that the way a bullet rips into its victim is exactly the way a movie or pop song lodges in the soul. This book contains the second, and most daring, of the four versions of the “Work of Art” essay—the one that addresses the utopian developments of the modern media. The collection tracks Benjamin’s observations on the media as they are revealed in essays on the production and reception of art; on film, radio, and photography; and on the modern transformations of literature and painting. The volume contains some of Benjamin’s best-known work alongside fascinating, little-known essays—some appearing for the first time in English. In the context of his passionate engagement with questions of aesthetics, the scope of Benjamin’s media theory can be fully appreciated. |
4. Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Walter Benjamin | |
Paperback: 348
Pages
(1986-03-12)
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Criticism at its best
A Portable Benjamin
Wise and witty, with a keen eye for detail
"A Highly Polished Mind"
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5. Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 4: 1938-1940 by Walter Benjamin | |
Paperback: 496
Pages
(2006-10-31)
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Editorial Review Product Description "Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to flee the Nazis. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings in the final years of his life, the "victories wrested" in this period nonetheless constitute some of the most remarkable twentieth-century analyses of the emergence of modern society. The essays on Charles Baudelaire are the distillation of a lifetime of thinking about the nature of modernity. They record the crisis of meaning experienced by a civilization sliding into the abyss, even as they testify to Benjamin's own faith in the written word. This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire, Brecht, and the historian Carl Jochmann to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry. At their core is the question of how art can survive and thrive in a tumultuous time. Here we see Benjamin laying out an ethic for the critic and artist--a subdued but resilient heroism. At the same time, he was setting forth a sociohistorical account of how art adapts in an age of violence and repression. Working at the height of his powers to the very end, Benjamin refined his theory of the mass media that culminated in the final version of his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility." Also included in this volume is his influential piece "On the Concept of History," completed just before his death. The book is remarkable for its inquiry into the nature of "the modern" (especially as revealed in Baudelaire), for its ideas about the transmogrification of art and the radical discontinuities of history, and for its examples of humane life and thought in the midst of barbarism. The entire collection is eloquent testimony to the indomitable spirit of humanity under siege. |
6. The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940 by Gershom Scholem, Anson Rabinbach | |
Paperback: 316
Pages
(1992-03-01)
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The letters of two geniuses |
7. The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin | |
Paperback: 1088
Pages
(2002-03-30)
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This is not a book!
Walter Benjamin's masterpiece
The Capitalist-Fascist Dreamscape, Interpreted
Fragmentary Epic
Humbug |
8. The Cambridge Introduction to Walter Benjamin (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) by David S. Ferris | |
Hardcover: 172
Pages
(2008-10-13)
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9. Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs by Walter Benjamin | |
Hardcover: 311
Pages
(2007-12-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, art and dreams. It comprises myriad smaller archives, in which Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artefacts, assortments of images, texts and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas and hopes, each of which was enthusiastically logged, systematized and analyzed by their author. In them, Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy. This unique book, produced in association with the Benjamin Archive, delves into these archives. They include carefully laid-out manuscripts; photograps of a home with luxurious furniture, arcades, Russian toys; picture postcards from Tuscany and the Balearics; meticulous and unconventional registers, card indexes and catalogs; notebooks, in which every single square centimeter is covered; a collation of his son's first words and sentences; riddles and enigmatic Sibyls. Everything here is subtly interlinked with everything else. Intricate and intimate, Walter Benjamin's Archive leads right into the core of his work, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author. Customer Reviews (2)
Stuff
A Book of Books |
10. Walter Benjamin: An Introduction to His Work and Thought by Uwe Steiner | |
Hardcover: 248
Pages
(2010-05-30)
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11. The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940 by Walter Benjamin | |
Hardcover: 674
Pages
(1994-06-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Writing at length to Scholem and Theodor Adorno, and exchanging letters with Rainer Maria Rilke, Hannah Arendt, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Max Horkheimer, Max Brod, Bertolt Brecht, and Kafka's friend Felix Weltsch, Benjamin elaborates his ideas about metaphor and language.He reflects on literary figures from Kafka to Karl Kraus, the "Jewish Question" and anti-Semitism, Marxism and Zionism.And he expounds his personal attitudes toward such subjects as the role of quotations in criticism, history, and tradition; the meaning of being a "collector"; and French culture and the national character. Customer Reviews (1)
Unique English-language edition of brilliant letter-writer |
12. Walter Benjamin: Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (Radical Thinkers) by Terry Eagleton | |
Paperback: 187
Pages
(2009-06-09)
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13. The Origin of German Tragic Drama (Radical Thinkers) by Walter Benjamin | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(2009-06-09)
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binding issue
Mine too, bad glue
Excellent book/poor edition
Essential reading for students of critical theory |
14. Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Walter Benjamin Studies) by Beatrice Hanssen | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(2006-08-10)
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15. Benjamin's Ground: New Readings of Walter Benjamin (Culture of Jewish Modernity) | |
Hardcover: 190
Pages
(1989-02)
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16. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin | |
Paperback: 50
Pages
(2010-09-23)
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You Wanna Be Smarter Obviously, You're Thinking Of Buying This Book |
17. In the Language of Walter Benjamin by Carol Jacobs | |
Paperback: 152
Pages
(2000-09-14)
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Editorial Review Product Description Carol Jacobs' In the Language of Walter Benjamin is an attempt to cometo terms with this predicament. It does so by teasing out suchguidelines for criticism as Benjamin seems to offer in The Origin ofGerman Tragic Drama. Jacobs reminds us of Benjamin's distinctionbetween truth and knowledge. She above all insists on his method ofphilosophical contemplation as performance, on a performance thatdemands precise immersion in the minute details of subject matter. In what follows, Jacobs practices this immersion in the details ofBenjamin's performance as she reads some of his key works: theautobiographical Berlin Chronicle, the apparently biographical studyof Proust, the fictional autobiographical story of"Myslowitz—Braunschweig—Marseille," and those essays on thetheory of language so crucial to an understanding of Benjamin, "TheTask of the Translator," "Doctrine of the Similar," and "On Languageas Such and on the Language of Man." |
18. Introducing Walter Benjamin by Howard Caygill | |
Paperback: 176
Pages
(1996-10-29)
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19. The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin (Cambridge Companions to Literature) | |
Paperback: 268
Pages
(2004-03-29)
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Great collection of essays that needed more editing |
20. On Hashish by Walter Benjamin | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(2006-05-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description Walter Benjamin's posthumously published collection of writings on hashish is a detailed blueprint for a book that was never written--a "truly exceptional book about hashish," as Benjamin describes it in a letter to his friend Gershom Scholem. A series of "protocols of drug experiments," written by himself and his co-participants between 1927 and 1934, together with short prose pieces that he published during his lifetime, On Hashish provides a peculiarly intimate portrait of Benjamin, venturesome as ever at the end of the Weimar Republic, and of his unique form of thought. Consciously placing himself in a tradition of literary drug-connoisseurs from Baudelaire to Hermann Hesse, Benjamin looked to hashish and other drugs for an initiation into what he called "profane illumination." At issue here, as everywhere in Benjamin's work, is a new way of seeing, a new connection to the ordinary world. Under the influence of hashish, as time and space become inseparable, experiences become subtly stratified and resonant: we inhabit more than one plane in time. What Benjamin, in his contemporaneous study of Surrealism, calls "image space" comes vividly to life in this philosophical immersion in the sensuous. This English-language edition of On Hashish features a section of supplementary materials--drawn from Benjamin's essays, letters, and sketches--relating to hashish use, as well as a reminiscence by his friend Jean Selz, which concerns a night of opium-smoking in Ibiza. A preface by Howard Eiland discusses the leading motifs of Benjamin's reflections on intoxication. Customer Reviews (2)
A revolutionary contact high?
Metaphysical Giggles |
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