Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Benjamin, Walter

ISBN 10: 1328470237 / ISBN 13: 9781328470232

Edité par Mariner Books Classics, 2019

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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.

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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Éditeur : Mariner Books Classics
Date d'édition : 2019
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : very_good