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1917 - The Russian Revolution by Walter Rodney; Jessie Benjamin (Editor); Robin D. G. Kelley (Editor); Vijay Prashad (Foreword by)
Category: History
A never-before-published book by the Pan-Africanist and socialist scholar and revolutionary In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading revolutionary thinkers of the Black Sixties. Earning his PhD in 1966 at the age of 24 and publishing his influential histor ...Show more
Aesthetics and Politics by Theodor W. Adorno (Author) , Walter Benjamin (Author) , Ernst Bloch (Author) , Bertolt Brecht (Author) , Georg Lukacs (Author)
Category: Non-Fiction
Features the text in the great controversies over literature and art between thinkers who have become giants of 20th-century philosophy.
Dreams By Walter Benjamin by Walter Benjamin (Columbia University)
Category: Non-Fiction
Dreams highlights a dimension of Benjamin’s thinking that was invaluable for his writing and thought but which has thus far received little attention. The first section, “Dream Notes,” is a comprehensive and chronological collection of Benjamin’s transcriptions of his own dreams and includes unpublished ...Show more
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
Category: Philosophy
A legendary collection of essays by one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century- 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of t ...Show more
Moscow Diary by Gary Smith; Walter Benjamin; Richard Sieburth; Gershom Scholem
Category: Non-Fiction
The life of the German-Jewish literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892?1940) is a veritable allegory of the life of letters in the twentieth century. Benjamin's intellectual odyssey culminated in his death by suicide on the Franco?Spanish border, pursued by the Nazis, but long before he had ...Show more
One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin; Michael W. Jennings; Edmund Jephcott; Greil Marcus
Category: Non-Fiction
One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature--by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offe ...Show more
One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including "One-Way Street", his dreamlike, aphoristic observations of urban life in Weimar Germ ...Show more
Origin of the German Trauerspiel by Walter Benjamin; Howard Eiland
Category: Non-Fiction
Focusing on the 17th-century play of mourning, Walter Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of modernity, bespeaking a haunted, bedeviled world of mutability and eternal transience. In this rigorous elegant translation, history as trauerspiel is the condition as well as subject of moder ...Show more
The Storyteller: Essays by Walter Benjamin; Samuel Titan (Introduction by, Editor); Tess Lewis (Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction
Walter Benjamin's "The Storyteller" is among the greatest and most widely read essays of this ever-suggestive but also enigmatic master thinker. Published in 1936 in an obscure Swiss review, "The Storyteller" was the product of at least a decade of ongoing reflection and composition. What might be calle ...Show more
The Storyteller: Tales Out of Loneliness by Walter Benjamin
Category: Classics
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 h ...Show more
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books ...Show more
WALTER BENJAMIN by BENJAMIN WALTER
Category: Reference
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 a ...Show more