Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674945852
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting and much more.
Selected Writings: 1913-1926
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674945852
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting and much more.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674945852
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting and much more.
Walter Benjamin
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927354117
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of fabricated essays, lectures and interviews, supposedly by Walter Benjamin.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927354117
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of fabricated essays, lectures and interviews, supposedly by Walter Benjamin.
Berlin Childhood Around 1900
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674022225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Benjamin's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century is translated into English for the first time in book form.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674022225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Benjamin's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century is translated into English for the first time in book form.
Selected Writings: 1927-1934
Elective Affinities
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Walter Benjamin
Author: Terry Eagleton
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 178960477X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 178960477X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.
Toward the Critique of Violence
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503627683
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
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 recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contemporaneous texts to which his essay refers. Readers thus encounter for the first time in English provocative arguments about law and violence advanced by Hermann Cohen, Kurt Hiller, Erich Unger, and Emil Lederer. A new translation of selections from Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence further illuminates Benjamin's critical program. The volume also includes, for the first time in any language, a bibliography Benjamin drafted for the expansion of the essay and the development of a corresponding philosophy of law. An extensive introduction and afterword provide additional context. With its challenging argument concerning violence, law, and justice—which addresses such topical matters as police violence, the death penalty, and the ambiguous force of religion—Benjamin's work is as important today as it was upon its publication in Weimar Germany a century ago.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503627683
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
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 recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contemporaneous texts to which his essay refers. Readers thus encounter for the first time in English provocative arguments about law and violence advanced by Hermann Cohen, Kurt Hiller, Erich Unger, and Emil Lederer. A new translation of selections from Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence further illuminates Benjamin's critical program. The volume also includes, for the first time in any language, a bibliography Benjamin drafted for the expansion of the essay and the development of a corresponding philosophy of law. An extensive introduction and afterword provide additional context. With its challenging argument concerning violence, law, and justice—which addresses such topical matters as police violence, the death penalty, and the ambiguous force of religion—Benjamin's work is as important today as it was upon its publication in Weimar Germany a century ago.
The Origin of German Tragic Drama
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1789604737
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel. Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer and the theatre of Calderon and Shakespeare. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. Georg Lukacs, an opponent of Benjamin's aesthetics, singled out The Origin of German Tragic Drama as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1789604737
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel. Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer and the theatre of Calderon and Shakespeare. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. Georg Lukacs, an opponent of Benjamin's aesthetics, singled out The Origin of German Tragic Drama as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.
Antonin Artaud
Author: Antonin Artaud
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520064430
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
"Artaud remains one of the significant and influential theorists of modern theatre."—Gerald Rabkin, Rutgers University
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520064430
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
"Artaud remains one of the significant and influential theorists of modern theatre."—Gerald Rabkin, Rutgers University
One-Way Street
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839761679
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
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 who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions. This collection, introduced by Susan Sontag, contains the most representative and illuminating selection of his work over a twenty-year period, and thus does full justice to the richness and the multi-dimensional nature of his thought. Included in these pages are aphorisms and townscapes, esoteric meditation and reminiscences of childhood, and reflections on language, psychology, aesthetics and politics.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839761679
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
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 who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions. This collection, introduced by Susan Sontag, contains the most representative and illuminating selection of his work over a twenty-year period, and thus does full justice to the richness and the multi-dimensional nature of his thought. Included in these pages are aphorisms and townscapes, esoteric meditation and reminiscences of childhood, and reflections on language, psychology, aesthetics and politics.