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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 3: 1935-1938

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Description for Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 3: 1935-1938 Paperback. Radical critic of a European civilisation plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie - such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. Part of a four-volume set, this work offers 27 pieces. Editor(s): Eiland, Howard; Jennings, Michael W. Num Pages: 480 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 574.
Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated. The centerpiece, A Berlin Childhood around 1900, marks the first appearance in English of one of the greatest German works of the twentieth century: a profound and beautiful account of the vanished world of Benjamin's privileged boyhood, recollected in exile. No less remarkable are the previously untranslated second version of Benjamin's ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674019812
SKU
V9780674019812
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About Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis. Howard Eiland is an editor and translator of Benjamin's writings. Michael W. Jennings is Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages at Princeton University.

Reviews for Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 3: 1935-1938
This latest volume of Harvard's majestic annotated edition of the essays and fragments includes reflections on Brecht, Kafka and the collector Eduard Fuchs, an early version of the famous analysis of art in the age of mechanical reproduction (here more accurately translated as technological reproducibility ) and the equally exhilarating inquiry into the nature of narrative, The Storyteller. ... Read more

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