Walter Benjamin

Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt. Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating...

Esta obra central en el universo benjaminiano se empezó a escribir en los años treinta del pasado siglo como contrapeso al mítico (y extrañado) proyecto del Libro de los Pasajes y al ascenso de los nazis al poder. Benjamin se torna a mirar su propia infancia: el nacimiento del "apetito de historias" en un niño enfermizo. No obstante, influido por Proust (de quien fue traductor), el autor alcanza una resonancia mayor y le devuelve su libertad...

Walter Benjamin estaba fascinado por la repercusión de las nuevas tecnologías en la cultura, un interés que se extendía más allá de sus ensayos críticos. De 1927 a 1933 escribió y presentó alrededor de ochenta trabajos para el novedoso entorno radiofónico. "Radio Benjamin" reúne las transcripciones conservadas de estos trabajos. Esta colección ecléctica muestra la variedad temática del pensamiento de Benjamin y el entusiasmo del pensador...

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 either your conviction or your distrust. Walter Benjamin was one of the great cultural critics of the twentieth century. In “Unpacking My Library” he offers a strikingly personal meditation on his career as...

O braungebackene Siegessäule / Mit Nebelzucker in den Wintertagen / Französische Kanonen überragen / Meine Fragen "Im Jahr 1932, als ich im Ausland war, begann mir klar zu werden, daß ich in Bälde einen längeren, vielleicht einen dauernden Abschied von der Stadt, in der ich geboren bin, würde nehmen müssen. Ich rief die Bilder, die im Exil das Heimweh am stärksten zu wecken pflegen - die der Kindheit - mit Absicht in mir hervor..." Walter...

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"A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker's short stories. This is the first major collection of short stories from the legendary German-Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Benjamin is best known for his groundbreaking studies on culture and literature, including the collections Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project, but here for the first time are gathered his experiments in fiction, with forms including...

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism's treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Benjamin, a work of art closed off from any active visual or tactile engagement becomes an object of passive contemplation and a potential tool of oppression. He argues that technology has fundamentally altered the way art is experienced. Open to interpretation and accessible to many, art in the...