Walter Benjamin 1931-1934 - Selected Writings

Informationen zum Autor Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis. Michael W. Jennings is Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages at Princeton University. Howard Eiland is an editor and translator of Benjamin’s writings. Gary Smith is an editor at work on the Einstein Papers project. Klappentext In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the "Selected Writings" is now available in paperback in two parts. In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust," as well as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection of his wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers. Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays, "Franz Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer," the extended autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle," and extended discussions of the history of photography and the social situation of the French writer, previously untranslated shorter pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, and on such influential figures as Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse. Zusammenfassung Collected here are “Franz Kafka,” “Karl Kraus,” and “The Author as Producer,” the meditation “A Berlin Chronicle,” discussions of photography and the French writer, and previously untranslated pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, Valery, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.

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• Authors: BENJAMIN, Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Walter Jennings, Walter Jennings
• Assisted by: Howard Eiland (Editor), Michael W. Jennings (Editor), Michael William Jennings (Editor), Eiland Howard (Editor of the series), Jennings Michael W. (Editor of the series), Gary Smith (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.06.2005
• EAN: 9780674017467
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01746-7
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Volume 2; Walter Benjamin; Volume 2; Walter Benjamin
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Essays, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Western philosophy from c 1800, Literary essays, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -