Illuminations : essays and reflections / Walter Benjamin ; translated by Harry Zohn ; edited and with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Boston ; New York : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019Copyright date: ©1955Edition: First Mariner Books editionDescription: lxiii, 238 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781328470232
- 1328470237
- Works. Selections. English. 1968
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A selection of works from one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century--as selected by Hannah Arendt and including a classic essay of her own about Walter Benjamin's life and philosophy.¶ "There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time."--George Steiner ¶ An icon of criticism, Walter Benjamin was renowned for his insights 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 includes two of Benjamin's best-known, deeply enlightening essays, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" and "Theses on the Philosophy of History," as well as Hannah Arendt's own essay about her subject's life as a German-born Jew during a dark era.
Selection of texts taken from the author's Schriften, 1955, and previously published in 1968.
Translated of Illuminationen.
The German title Illuminationen of this work is identical to an unrelated selection of the author's Schriften published in 1961.
Includes bibliographical references and index.