Selected writings
"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 third volume in a four-volume set offers twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated."
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- Full title :Selected writings / Walter Benjamin ; Michael W. Jennings, General Editor
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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 third volume in a four-volume set offers twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated."
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- Publication Date:©2002
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2002
Notes
Met index.
"This work is a translation of selections from Walter Benjamin, Gesammelte Schriften, Unter Mitwirkung von Theodor W. Adorno und Gershom Scholem, herausgegeben von Rolf Tiedemann und Hermann Schweppenhäuser, copyright © 1972, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1985, 1989 by Suhrkamp Verlag. Some of the pieces in this volume were previously published in English, as follows: "Brecht's Threepenny Novel"and "Theological-Political Fragment" appeared in Walter Benjamin, Reflections, English translation copyright © 1978 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. Published by arrangement with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. "The Storyteller" appeared in Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, English translation copyright © 1968 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. "Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century"appeared in Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, English translation copyright © 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College."
The Physical Object
- Description:462 genummerde pagina's : : illustraties ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780674019812, 0674019814
- oclc:on1015895084
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