Reflections : essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing / Walter Benjamin ; translated by Edmund Jephcott ; edited and with an introduction by Peter Demetz.

Author
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 [Browse]
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Schocken Books, 1986, ©1978.
Description
xliii, 348 pages ; 21 cm

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    A companion volume to Illuminations (also available in Schocken paperback), Reflections presents a new sampling of Walter Benjamin's wide-ranging work. In addition to literary criticism, it contains autobiographical narration and travel pieces, aphorisms, and philosophical-theological speculations. Provided by publisher.
    Notes
    Includes index.
    Bibliographic references
    Bibliography: p. [339]-340.
    Contents
    • A Berlin chronicle
    • One-way street (selections)
    • Moscow
    • Marseilles
    • Hashish in Marseilles
    • Paris, capital of the nineteenth century
    • Naples
    • Surrealism
    • Brecht's Threepenny opera
    • Conversations with Brecht
    • The author as producer
    • Karl Kraus
    • Critique of violence
    • The destructive character
    • Fate and character
    • Theologico-political fragment
    • On language as such and on the language of Man
    • On the mimetic faculty.
    ISBN
    • 080520802X ((pbk.))
    • 9780805208023 ((pbk.))
    • 0151761892
    • 9780151761890
    • 9781328470225
    • 1328470229
    LCCN
    85026232
    OCLC
    12805048
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