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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 lit...more
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Published June 15th 2005 by Belknap Press
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'A healthy reader mocks the reviewer's judgment. But what pleases that reader most deeply is the delicious bad taste of taking part uninvited when someone else reads.'
One of the 20th century's more criminally overlooked writers (outside of the shrinking circle of people who read such things) and, in my estimation, part of a triad of Great Essayists (Lu Xun and George Orwell form the other sides of the triangle) that everyone should read and for feeling foolish that they haven't yet.
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One of the 20th century's more criminally overlooked writers (outside of the shrinking circle of people who read such things) and, in my estimation, part of a triad of Great Essayists (Lu Xun and George Orwell form the other sides of the triangle) that everyone should read and for feeling foolish that they haven't yet.
Benjamin's pi...more
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Definitely lots of goodies in this volume. My boy Walter is hands down one of the most - if not the most - unique thinkers I have ever encountered. It's hard not to fall in love with his work. Reading Benjamin is a breath of fresh air.
May 02, 2007Ernie rated it it was amazing
This was basically the only book I was reading (next to the Arcades Project and McKay's Banjo) during Summer 2005.
Benjamin's essays from 1929 represent a true turning point in his work: the beginning of his idiosyncratic engagement with Marxism. Benjamin reached some of his greatest theoretical insights at this time: 'Return of the Flaneur' and 'Crisis of the Novel' represent a perfect blending of the book review with the creation of new critical frameworks, the kind of 'improvising, immanent c...more
Mar 01, 2014Beatrice McDonald rated it it was amazingBenjamin's essays from 1929 represent a true turning point in his work: the beginning of his idiosyncratic engagement with Marxism. Benjamin reached some of his greatest theoretical insights at this time: 'Return of the Flaneur' and 'Crisis of the Novel' represent a perfect blending of the book review with the creation of new critical frameworks, the kind of 'improvising, immanent c...more
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A vital book. For the essay 'Goethe's Elective Affinities' I will be eternally grateful.
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin 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.
As a sociological and cultural critic, Benjamin combined ideas drawn from historical materiali...more
As a sociological and cultural critic, Benjamin combined ideas drawn from historical materiali...more