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  | | Illuminations Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2019 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-1-328-47023-2, ISBN: 1-328-47023-7 "“There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time.” — George Steiner Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Wo ..." |
 | | Reflections(Reprint) Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Walter Benjamin, Peter Demetz, Edmund Jephcott Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2019 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-1-328-47022-5, ISBN: 1-328-47022-9 "“This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century’s fragments of shattered traditions.” — Time 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 t ..." |
 | | The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland, Kevin Mclaughlin, Rolf Tiedemann Paperback, 1,088 Pages, Published 2002 by Belknap Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-00802-1, ISBN: 0-674-00802-2 " "To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years--"the theater," as Benjamin called it, "of all my struggles and all my idea ..." |
 | | Toward the Critique of Violence A Critical Edition (Paperback) by Walter Benjamin, Peter Fenves, Julia Ng, Bruce Rosenstock, Alberto Toscano Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2021 by Stanford University Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-4953-4, ISBN: 0-8047-4953-1 "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 is widely recognized as a ..." |
 | | The Storyteller Essays (New York Review Books Classics) by Walter Benjamin, Samuel Titan, Tess Lewis Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2019 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-68137-058-3, ISBN: 1-68137-058-1 "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 writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work.Walter Benjamin's "The Storyteller" is among the greatest and most widely read essays of this ever-suggestive but also enigmatic master thinker. Published in 1936 in an obscure ..." |
 | | Charles Baudelaire(Updated) A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism (Verso Classics Series) by Walter Benjamin, Harry Zohn Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1997 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-192-1, ISBN: 1-85984-192-9 "Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural ommentators and theorists of the 20th century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history. Yet, it was through his study of the social and cultural history of late-19th-century Paris, examined particularly in relation to the figure of the great Parisian lyric poet Charles Baudelaire, that Benjamin tested and enriched some of his core concept ..." |
 | | Aesthetics and Politics by Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukacs 224 Pages, Published 2020 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-858-3, ISBN: 1-78873-858-6 "In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume." |
 | | The Origin of German Tragic Drama(Reprint) (Radical Thinkers) by Walter Benjamin, George Steiner, John Osborne Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2009 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-348-3, ISBN: 1-84467-348-0 "Benjamin's most sustained and original work, considered one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century. Cited by Lukács as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin’s study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally, “mourning play”) is the most complete document of his prismatic literary and philosophical practice. Engaging with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German playwrights ..." |
 | | Aesthetics and Politics(1st Edition) (Radical Thinkers) by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukacs, Afterword-Fredric Jameson, Sin Autor, Benjamin Adorno Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2007 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-570-8, ISBN: 1-84467-570-X "An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature.No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these year ..." |
 | | On Hashish(1st Edition) by Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland, Marcus Boon Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2006 by Belknap Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02221-8, ISBN: 0-674-02221-1 " 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 ..." |
 | | Grand Street 52 Games (Spring 1995) by Jay Defeo, Paul Virilio, Chris Burden, Tony Oursler, Walter Hopps, David Mamet, Walter Benjamin, Jean Stein, Grand Street, Deborah Treisman, Michael Collier Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1995 by Grand Street ISBN-13: 978-1-885490-03-2, ISBN: 1-885490-03-8 "What is at play is no longer the connector rod in its housing, but the loss of what is most intimate in our experience of the body. The actor Louis Jouvet wrote, " Everything is suspect, except the body ... Maffesoli's tribalization is a totally outmoded vision; the future lies in an unimaginable solitude — of which play is one element. JS: One has the impression that the player's quest ends in a ... time saying how wonderful techno ..." |
 | | Illuminations(Updated) by Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Harry Zohn, Harry Zorn Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1999 by Pimlico ISBN-13: 978-0-7126-6575-9, ISBN: 0-7126-6575-7 "The literary-philosophical works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) rank among the most quietly influential of the post-war era, though only since his death has Benjamin achieved the fame and critical currency outside his native Germany accorded him by a select few during his lifetime. Now he is widely held to have possessed one of the most acute and original minds of the Central European culture decimated by the Nazis. Illuminations contai ..." |
 | | Research(1st Edition) Some Ground Rules (Oxford Science Publications) by Walter Benjamin, W. Benjimen Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 1995 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-854823-2, ISBN: 0-19-854823-0 "This practical handbook provides essential information and advice for students and postgraduates about to embark on biomedical research." |
 | | Illuminations(Updated) by Walter Benjamin, Hannah . Arendt, Harry Zohn Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1992 by Fontana Press Import ISBN-13: 978-0-00-686248-2, ISBN: 0-00-686248-9 "The literary-philosophical works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) rank among the most quietly influential of the post-war era, though only since his death has Benjamin achieved the fame and critical currency outside his native Germany accorded him by a select few during his lifetime. Now he is widely held to have possessed one of the most acute and original minds of the Central European culture decimated by the Nazis. Illuminations contai ..." |
 | | Reflections Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Walter Benjamin, Peter Demetz Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 1979 by Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-676245-8, ISBN: 0-15-676245-5 "Travel writings, essays on Brecht, philosophical texts, the autobiographical Berlin Chronicle, and other pieces attest to the noted German-Jewish writer's stature and insights as a critic" |
 | | Walter Benjamin(1st Edition) Selected Writings, Volume 4: 1938-1940 by Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland, Michael W. Jennings, Eds. Edmund Jephcott Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2006 by Belknap Press Of Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02229-4, ISBN: 0-674-02229-7 " "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 ..." |
 | | One-Way Street(1st Edition) by Walter Benjamin, Edmund Jephcott, Michael W. Jennings, Greil Marcus, Michael William Jennings Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2016 by Belknap Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-05229-1, ISBN: 0-674-05229-3 "One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature--by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, writing in a vein that anticipates later mas ..." |
 | | Illuminations(1st Edition) by Walter Benjamin, Harry Zohn, Hannah Arendt Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1970 by Vintage/Ebury (A Division Of Random House Group) ISBN-13: 978-0-224-61825-0, ISBN: 0-224-61825-3 "A selection of the literary and philosophical essays written by Walter Benjamin accompanied by an introduction by Hannah Arendt." |
 | | Walter Benjamin(Updated) Selected Writings, Volume 1: 1913-1926 by Walter Benjamin, Marcus / Jennings Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Marcus Paul Bullock, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith, Edmund Jephcott, Rodney Livingstone Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2004 by Belknap Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-01355-1, ISBN: 0-674-01355-7 " Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of his work in definitive translation, under the general editorship of Michael W. Jennings. This volume, the first of three, will at last give readers of English a true sense of the man a ..." |
 | | One- Way Stree And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin Softcover, Published 2021 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-165-2, ISBN: 1-83976-165-2 |
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