Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 28,14 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 : Harvard University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 37,86 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.
Author : Michael Lowy
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 34,10 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 :
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 1996
Category :
ISBN : 9780674010765
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 39,12 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 : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674174153
The legendary correspondence between the critic Walter Benjamin and the historian Gershom Scholem bears indispensable witness to the inner lives of two remarkable and enigmatic personalities. Benjamin, acknowledged today as one of the leading literary and social critics of his day, was known during his lifetime by only a small circle of his friends and intellectual confreres. Scholem recognized the genius of his friend and mentor during their student days in Berlin, and the two began to correspond after Scholem's emigration to Palestine. Their impassioned exchange draws the reader into the very heart of their complex relationship during the anguished years from 1932 until Benjamin's death in 1940.
Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 178960477X
From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 39,9 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 : 452 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2008-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674024458
A series of influential essays on the visual arts that were made possible by machines, and the implications for the future of culture.
Author : Uwe Steiner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226772225
Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) continues to fascinate and influence. Here Uwe Steiner offers a comprehensive and sophisticated introduction to the oeuvre of this intriguing theorist. Acknowledged only by a small circle of intellectuals during his lifetime, Benjamin is now a major figure whose work is essential to an understanding of modernity. Steiner traces the development of Benjamin’s thought chronologically through his writings on philosophy, literature, history, politics, the media, art, photography, cinema, technology, and theology. Walter Benjamin reveals the essential coherence of its subject’s thinking while also analyzing the controversial or puzzling facets of Benjamin’s work. That coherence, Steiner contends, can best be appreciated by placing Benjamin in his proper context as a member of the German philosophical tradition and a participant in contemporary intellectual debates. As Benjamin’s writing attracts more and more readers in the English-speaking world, Walter Benjamin will be a valuable guide to this fascinating body of work.
