One-Way Street
And Other Writings
Published on 20. July 2021
480 pages
978-1-83976-166-9 (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.
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Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-83976-166-9 (9781839761669)
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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.
Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction by Susan Sontag
- Publisher's Note
- I
- One-Way Street
- II
- On Language as Such and on the Language of Man
- Fate and Character
- Critique of Violence
- Theologico-Political Fragment
- The Destructive Character
- On the Mimetic Faculty
- III
- Naples with Asja Lacis
- Moscow
- Marseilles
- Hashish in Marseilles
- IV
- Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia
- A Small History of Photography
- Karl Kraus
- V
- A Berlin Chronicle
- VI
- Eduard Fuchs, Collector and Historian
- Bibliographical Note
- Notes
- Index
