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Title: Reflections by Walter Benjamin ISBN: 0-8052-0802-X Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 12 March, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "A Highly Polished Mind"
Comment: Reflections presents for the reader the great range that Benjamin had as a writer, critic and occidentalist. This collection further demonstrates Benjamin's acute awareness of the literature of his time, as evidenced by his essay on 'Surrealism', which is as fine a reflection on its themes as the manifestos of Andre Breton. Furthermore, his writings and conversations with Bertolt Brecht show Benjamin to be very close to the thinking of the author himself. Also included is his celebrated essay on Karl Kraus,"the Jewish Swift of Vienna". But what I like most about this collection are the amorphisms and autobiographical sketches of 'Marseilles' and 'One-way Street'. In his images of Marseilles Benjamin creates an "exegesis of the city" that is as fine as any poet could offer; spellbinding, acute, and beautiful. As well, his wit and insight into social phenomena is detailed in 'One-Way Street', and also in the piece on Moscow, which lets the western reader experience a rare witnessing of the Russian city in the years after the Revolution in a way that recalls Dziga Vertov. Finally, the inclusion of several pieces of Benjamin's philosophical-theological speculations show that he was a man of great breath and wisedom, and further showcase the wide range of his highly polished mind.
Rating: 1
Summary: Reflections:
Comment: I think that this book is a forgery by appenine fascist youth. Like most of this book's readers, they took their master plan far too seriously. It's this inability to laugh which makes the work canonical, but nonetheless a product of unknown authorship.
Rating: 5
Summary: He was really a pretty funny guy if you give him a chance...
Comment: "Walter Benjamin is now recognized as one of the most accute analysts of literary and sociological phenomena of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A companion volume to Illuminations, the earlier collection of Benjamin's writings, Reflections presents a new sampling of his wide-ranging work. In addition to literary criticism, it contains autobiograohical narration and travel pieces, aphorisms, and philosophical-theological speculations. Most of Benjamin's writings on Brecht and his celebrated essay on Karl Kraus are included."
Enjoy charming anecdotes like "Hashish in Marseilles" and the sardonic incites of "One-Way Street" (Germans, Drink German Beer!) as you peruse the timeless thoughts of a persecuted man.
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Title: Illuminations by Walter Benjamin ISBN: 0805202412 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 13 January, 1969 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland, Kevin McLaughlin ISBN: 0674008022 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Mythologies by Roland Barthes, Annette Lavers ISBN: 0374521506 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1972 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-Contemporary Interventions Series) by Fredric Jameson ISBN: 0822310902 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Image-Music-Text by Roland Barthes ISBN: 0374521360 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1978 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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