Walter Benjamin - Böcker

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Walter Benjamin (18921940) var en tysk filosof och litteraturkritiker. I december 1926 reste han mot Moskva. Väl framme förde han under två månader dagbok över sin vistelse. Tiden är bara inte politiskt turbulent utan också estetiskt omvälvande. Ä...

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Kulturkritikern Walter Benjamin (1892?1940) hade med sig anteckningsboken överallt och satt ofta och skrev på kaféer. Kanske bidrog den omständigheten till den sinnliga fräschör och improvisatoriska rörlighet som kännetecknar också hans mest intri...

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No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies ...

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Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', The Task of the Translator and 'Thes...

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"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1...

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I Walter Benjamins livsprojekt, nu en modern klassiker, finns varken början eller slut. Under olika rubriker samlas tankar, fantasieggande citat, minimala essäer, ögonblicksbilder och hugskott. Man kan när som helst dyka ner i detta verk, en labyr...

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I Walter Benjamins (1892-1940) författarskap utgör doktors¿avhandlingen Begreppet konstkritik i den tyska romantiken (1920) ett övergångsverk. Här binds de tidiga kunskaps- och språkfilosofiska texterna samman med essän om Goethes Valfrändskaperna...

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Innehåll: Vad är den episka teatern? Studier till den episka teaterns teori Ur Brechtkommentaren Ett familjedrama på den episka teatern Landet där proletariatet inte får nämnas Kommentarer till dikter av Brecht Brechts tolvskillingsroman Författar...

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Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant port...

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An extraordinary document in the history of photographic criticism. Perhaps more than any other text, A Little History of Photography by the German-Jewish thinker Walter Benjamin has shaped the way in which we understand early photography and the ...

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One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly and what the troubling social and politic...

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Walter Benjamin (1892?1840) var en djupt originell litteratur- och kulturkritiker. Han var forskare, översättare, samlare och flanör och skrev banbrytande texter om bland annat den moderna urbana tillvaron ("Paris - 1800-talets huvudstad"...

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"I fully realize that my discussion of the mental climate of collecting will confirm many of you in your conviction that this passion is behind the times, in your distrust of the collector type. Nothing is further from my mind than to shake e...

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Am 4. Dezember 1926 reiste Walter Benjamin nach Moskau. Das Tagebuch seines Aufenthaltes vom 6. Dezember 1926 bis zum 1. Februar 1927 ist zu einer Zeit geschrieben, in der Stalin nicht nur Trotzki und die »Opposition« im Kampf um die Nachfolge Len...

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Die Korrespondenz zwischen Gretel Adorno und Walter Benjamin, die 1930 einsetzt, aber erst mit Benjamins Emigration nach Frankreich ihre volle Intensität erreicht, ist nicht nur ein spätes Zeugnis des intellektuellen Berlin der zwanziger Jahre, so...

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One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly and what the troubling social and political im...

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Walter Benjamin's essay 'A Short History of Photography' (1931) made bold statements about photographic pioneers such as David Octavius Hill and Nicephore Niepce, and the social and historical context of their work. This first selec...

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"This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century's fragments of shattered traditions." - Time A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, R...

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Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brill...

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"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a fai...

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Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamins first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as The Origin of German Tragic Drama, but in fact the subject is something elsethe play of mourning. Howard E...

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A selection of works from one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century-as selected by Hannah Arendt and including a classic essay of her own about Walter Benjamin's life and philosophy.¶ "There has been no more original,...

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Nearly one-third of the land area on our planet is classified as arid or desert. Therefore, an understanding of the dynamics of such arid ecosystems is essential to managing those systems in a way that sustains human populations. This second editi...

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Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including 'One-Way Street&ap...

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Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including 'One-Way Street', his dreaml...

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Called "the most important critic of his time" by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has also emerged as one of the most compelling thinkers of our time, his work assuming a crucial place in current debates over the interactions of art, cult...

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Called "the most important critic of his time" by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has assumed a crucial place in current debates over the interactions of art, culture, and meani...

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Called the most important critic of his time by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has assumed a crucial place in current debates over the interactions of art, culture, and meaning. A natura...

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