Selected Writings by Walter Benjamin
Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting, and much more. He is as compelling and insightful when musing on riddles or children's books as he is when dealing with symbolic logic or epistemology.
To encounter Benjamin's piece [The Life of a Students] is like overhearing the opening notes of one of the most intellectually compelling friendships of our centuryIt is greatly to the credit of Harvard University Press to have made the text finally available to English-speaking readers. In general, the editors of this volume have made an exemplary choice of what to include, and when their projected multi-volume section is complete, it will constitute the most important compilation of Benjamin's writings outside the mammoth German Collected Works. - Michael Andre Bernstein, New Republic
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a literary and cultural critic who wrote a number of works.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674945852 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674945859 |
| Title | Selected Writings |
| Author | Walter Benjamin |
| Series | Walter Benjamin Ser |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1996-12-31 |
| Number of pages | 528 |
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