Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674010765
Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 9781927354117
A collection of fabricated essays, lectures and interviews, supposedly by Walter Benjamin.
Author : Michael Lowy
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1784786438
This illuminating study of Benjamin’s final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism—Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an “unclassifiable” philosopher. His essay “On the Concept of History” was written in a state of urgency, as he attempted to escape the Gestapo in 1940, before finally committing suicide. In this scrupulous, clear and fascinating examination of this essay, Michael Löwy argues that it remains one of the most important philosophical and political writings of the twentieth century. Looking in detail at Benjamin’s celebrated but often mysterious text, and restoring the philosophical, theological and political context, Löwy highlights the complex relationship between redemption and revolution in Benjamin’s philosophy of history.
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674022874
"In this book Benjamin reveals Baudelaire as a social poet of the very first rank. More than a series of studies of Baudelaire, these essays show the extent to which Benjamin identifies with the poet and enable him to explore his own notion of heroism."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Vo Nguyen Giap
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1583678247
This collection includes the major writings of General Giap, who, on the evidence of his record as well as his theoretical work, has long been recognized as one of the military geniuses of modern times. The book includes writings from the 1940s to the end of the 1960s.
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 28,85 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674945852
Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting and much more.
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1789604737
The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel. Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer and the theatre of Calderon and Shakespeare. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. Georg Lukacs, an opponent of Benjamin's aesthetics, singled out The Origin of German Tragic Drama as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780674945869
Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1839761679
A classic collection of Walter Benjamin's essays, including some of his most celebrated writing Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions. This collection, introduced by Susan Sontag, contains the most representative and illuminating selection of his work over a twenty-year period, and thus does full justice to the richness and the multi-dimensional nature of his thought. Included in these pages are aphorisms and townscapes, esoteric meditation and reminiscences of childhood, and reflections on language, psychology, aesthetics and politics.
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674022225
Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Benjamin's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century is translated into English for the first time in book form.
