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Literature & Fiction
Called "the most important critic of his time" by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has assumed a crucial place in current debates over the interactions of art... See More
A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker's short stories The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
A classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire's life and work Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt. Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and... See More
Literature & Fiction
The towering twentieth century thinker delve into literature, philosophy, and his own life experience in this "extraordinary collection" (Publishers Weekly). A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of... See More
Walter Benjamin's essay 'A Short History of Photography' (1931) made bold statements about photographic pioneers such as David Octavius Hill and Nicéphore Niépce, and the social and historical context of their work. This... See More
Politics & Social Sciences'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 wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 from the south of... See More
Literary Criticism
Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin's first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as "The Origin of German Tragic Drama," but in fact the subject is something else... See More
Literature & Fiction
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... See More
Literary Criticism
In this book, Weber, a leading theorist on literature and media, reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin's thought by focusing the critical suffix "-ability" that Benjamin so tellingly deploys in his work. The result... See More
Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism
Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to '33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts... See More
Literary Criticism
An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir... See More
Foreign Languages
Il concetto benjaminiano di "Eingedenken", che compare in alcuni passaggi decisivi delle tesi Sul concetto di storia, ha alle spalle una storia misconosciuta che la presente antologia intende fi nalmente illuminare. Fu Ernst... See More
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... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
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... See More
Foreign Languages
Por su insatisfacción frente al dominio de la burguesía, Baudelaire logró expresar más de su época que lo enunciado por cualquier otra creación literaria de temática social, pero fueron necesarias las interpretaciones... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
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... See More
Reference
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a German essayist and critic. His essays on Charles Baudelaire and Franz Kafka and his opinion on symbolism, allegory, and the function of art in a mechanical age have greatly affected modern... See More