Walter Benjamin: selected writings

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This volume offers extensively annotated translations of essays that are key to Benjamin's rewriting of the story of modernism and modernity, as well as a diary from 1938 and penetrating studies of Bertolt Brecht, Franz Kafka and Eduard Fuchs.

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Full title :Walter Benjamin : selected writings. / edited by Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings.

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Publication Date:2006.

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Publisher(s):Belknap
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:2006.

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Originally published: 2002.

Includes index.

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Description:pages cm

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ISBN:0674019814, 9780674019812
oclc:ocm64313282
LC Classification:PT2603.E455
Dewey Decimal:838.91209

Paris old and new, 1935. Brecht's Threepenny novel -- Johann Jakob Bachofen -- Conversation above the Corso : recollections of carnival-time in Nice -- Paris, the capital of the nineteenth century -- Exchange with Theodor W. Adorno on the essay "Paris, the capital of the nineteenth century" -- Problems in the sociology of language : an overview -- The formula in which the dialectical structure of film finds expression -- Rastelli's story -- Art in a technological age, 1936. The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility : second version -- A different utopian will -- The significance of beautiful semblance -- The signatures of the age -- Theory of distraction -- The storyteller : observations on the works of Nikolai Leskov -- German men and women : a sequence of letters -- Letter from Paris (2) : painting and photography -- Translation -- for and against -- The knowledge that the first material on which the mimetic faculty tested itself -- Dialectics and history, 1927. Addendum to teh Brecht commentary : The Threepenny opera -- Eduard Fuchs, collector and historian -- Fruits of exile, 1938 (Part II). Theological-political fragment -- A German Institute for Indepen…