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Zusatztext “Everything which fell under the scrutiny of his words was transformed! as though it had become radioactive.” —Theodor Adorno “A complex and brilliant writer.” —J.M. Coetzee “Walter Benjamin was one of the unclassifiable ones ... whose work neither fits the existing order nor introduces a new genre.” —Hannah Arendt “Benjamin buckled himself to the task of revolutionary transformation … his life and work speak challengingly to us all.” —Terry Eagleton “There has been no more original! no more serious critic and reader in our time.” —George Steiner Informationen zum Autor Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic! essayist! translator and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations ; The Arcades Projec t; and The Origin of German Tragic Drama . Lecia Rosenthal is the author of Mourning Modernism: Literature! Catastrophe! and the Politics of Consolation . She has taught at Columbia and Tufts. Klappentext From 1927 to 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and presented more than eighty broadcasts over the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers, for the first time in English, the surviving transcripts. This eclectic collection shows the range of Benjamin's thinking and includes stories for young and old, plays, readings, book reviews, a novella, and discussions of topics ranging from finding a job to the architecture of Berlin to an account of the railway disaster at the Firth of Tay. Delightful and incisive, this is Walter Benjamin directing his sophisticated thinking to a mass audience. Zusammenfassung This collection of the legendary thinker's radio broadcasts brings together some of his most accessible and fascinating thinking.
