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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections - Couverture souple

Benjamin, Walter

 
9781328470232: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
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ISBN 10 : 1328470237 ISBN 13 : 9781328470232
Editeur : Mariner Books, 2019

Synopsis

“There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time.” — George Steiner
 
Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his theses on the philosophy of history.
Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin’s life in a dark historical era.

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À propos de l'auteur

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 was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem.

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Éditeur
Mariner Books
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1328470237
ISBN 13 
9781328470232
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
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