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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, culture, and meaning. A "natural and extraordinary talent for letter writing was one of the most captivating facets of his nature," writes Gershom Scholem in his Foreword to this volume; and Benjamin's correspondence reveals the evolution of some of his most powerful ideas, while also offering an intimate picture of Benjamin himself and the times in which he lived.Writing at...
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 assu...
"La nostra indagine si propone di mostrare come in conseguenza di questa rappresentazione cosistica del processo di civilizzazione, le nuove forme di vita e le nuove creazioni a base economica e tecnica, che noi imputiamo al secolo trascorso, appartengano invece alluniverso di una fantasmagoria." Walter Benjamin.
"La nostra indagine si propone di mostrare come in conseguenza di questa rappresentazione cosistica del processo di civilizzazione, le nuove forme di ...
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 of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, assortments of images, texts, and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas, and hopes, each of which was enthusiastically logged, systematized, and analyzed by their author. In this way, Benjamin laid...
An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents The work of the great literary and cultural critic...