One-Way Street

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.

Info autore

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator and philosopher. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama. In 1940, he was in Spain, fleeing the Nazis and en route to the United States, when Franco's government cancelled his visa. Expecting repatriation, he took his own life.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Walter Benjamin, Benjamin Walter
• Con la collaborazione di: Sontag Susan (Introduzione), Edmund Jephcott (Traduzione), Edmund FN Jephcott (Traduzione), Jephcott Edmund (Traduzione), Kingsley Shorter (Traduzione)
• Editore: Verso
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781839761652
• ISBN: 978-1-83976-165-2
• Pagine: 480
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 200 mm x 30 mm
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Essays, History of Ideas, Prose: non-fiction, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, Western philosophy from c 1800, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Literary essays, Biography and non-fiction prose, Marxism & Communism