
One-Way Street
And Other Writings
Walter Benjamin(Author)
Verso Books (Publisher)
Published on 20. July 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-1-83976-165-2 (ISBN)
Description
Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions.
This collection, introduced by Susan Sontag, contains the most representative and illuminating selection of his work over a twenty-year period, and thus does full justice to the richness and the multi-dimensional nature of his thought. Included in these pages are aphorisms and townscapes, esoteric meditation and reminiscences of childhood, and reflections on language, psychology, aesthetics and politics.
This collection, introduced by Susan Sontag, contains the most representative and illuminating selection of his work over a twenty-year period, and thus does full justice to the richness and the multi-dimensional nature of his thought. Included in these pages are aphorisms and townscapes, esoteric meditation and reminiscences of childhood, and reflections on language, psychology, aesthetics and politics.
Reviews / Votes
The most important German aesthetician and literary critic of this century -- George Steiner Benjamin was one of the unclassifiable ones ... whose work neither fits the existing order nor introduces a new genre. -- Hannah Arendt Benjamin was the interlocutor of all the demons and angels of storytelling. And this is why he knew its endless secrets. Listen to him. -- John Berger A complex and brilliant writer * J. M. Coetzee *More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
326 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83976-165-2 (9781839761652)
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01/1997
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Persons
Walter 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 is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.