Walter Benjamin was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the 20th century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including 'One-Way Street', his dreamlike, aphoristic observations of urban life in Weimar Germany.
Walter Benjamin was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the 20th century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, incl...
"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years--"the theater," as Benjamin called it, "of all my struggles and all my ideas."
Focusing on the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris-glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin...
"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceiv...
Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of his work in definitive translation, under the general editorship of Michael W. Jennings. This volume, the first of three, will at last give readers of English a true sense of the man and the many facets of his thought. (The magnum opus of Benjamin's Paris years, The Arcades Project, has been published in a separate volume.)...
Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have bee...
Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered "final version" that contains the author's own arrangement of a suite of luminous vignettes, it can be more widely appreciated as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century prose writing.
Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Benjamin's recollection of his childhood in an...
Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin...
Walter Benjamin's essays on the great French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire revolutionized not just the way we think about Baudelaire, but our understanding of modernity and modernism as well. In these essays, Benjamin challenges the image of Baudelaire as late-Romantic dreamer, and evokes instead the modern poet caught in a life-or-death struggle with the forces of the urban commodity capitalism that had emerged in Paris around 1850. The Baudelaire who steps forth from these pages is the flAneur who affixes images as he strolls through mercantile Paris, the ragpicker who collects urban...
Walter Benjamin's essays on the great French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire revolutionized not just the way we think about Baudelaire, but our under...
Benjamin s famous Work of Art essay sets out his boldest thoughts on media and on culture in general in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the machine age morph into literature and theory and then back again to images, gestures, and thought.
This essay, however, is only the beginning of a vast collection of writings that the editors have assembled to demonstrate what was revolutionary about Benjamin s explorations on media. Long before Marshall McLuhan, Benjamin saw that the way a bullet...
Benjamin s famous Work of Art essay sets out his boldest thoughts on media and on culture in general in their most realized form, while retaining ...
The first stirrings of this most original of critical minds--penned during the years when he transformed himself from the comfortable son of a German Jewish family into the nomadic, boundary-crossing philosopher-critic we appreciate--have until now remained largely unavailable in English. Early Writings, 1910-1917 rectifies this situation.
The first stirrings of this most original of critical minds--penned during the years when he transformed himself from the comfortable son of a German ...
Cited by Lukacs as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin's study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally, "mourning play") is the most complete document of his prismatic literary and philosophical practice. Engaging with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German playwrights as well as the plays of Shakespeare and Calderon and the engravings of Durer, Benjamin attempts to show how the historically charged forms of the Trauerspiel broke free of tragedy's mythological timelessness. From its philosophical prologue, which offers a rare account of Benjamin's...
Cited by Lukacs as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin's study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally, "mournin...
Walter Benjamin: Deutsche Menschen. Eine Folge von Briefen Auswahl und Einleitungen von Detlef Holz Pseudonym Benjamins]. Vita Nova Verlag, Luzern 1936. Inhaltsverzeichnis Deutsche Menschen Vorwort Karl Friedrich Zelter an Kanzler von Muller Georg Christoph Lichtenberg an G.H. Amelung Johann Heinrich Kant an Immanuel Kant Georg Forster an seine Frau Samuel Collenbusch an Immanuel Kant Heinrich Pestalozzi an Anna Schultheiss Johann Gottfried Seume an den Gatten seiner fruheren Verlobten Friedrich Holderlin an Casimir Bohlendorf Clemens Brentano an den Buchhandler Reimer Johann Wilhelm Ritter...
Walter Benjamin: Deutsche Menschen. Eine Folge von Briefen Auswahl und Einleitungen von Detlef Holz Pseudonym Benjamins]. Vita Nova Verlag, Luzern 19...
Walter Benjamin: Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit. Die drei deutschen Fassungen in einem Band Vollstandige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Rembrandt van Rijn, Die Anatomie des Dr. Tulp, 1632. Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt."
Walter Benjamin: Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit. Die drei deutschen Fassungen in einem Band Vollstandige Neuausgabe....
