Bøger af Walter Benjamin

Called "the most important critic of his time" by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years. Suitable for any scholar wrestling with Benjamin's work, this title offers a look at the man behind much of the twentieth century's most significant criticism.

The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. * This is the first time all of the surviving correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin has appeared in English. * Provides a key to the personalities and projects of these two major intellectual figures.

Features the text in the great controversies over literature and art between thinkers who have become giants of 20th-century philosophy.

An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, assortments of images, texts, and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas, and hopes, each of which was enthusiastically logged, systematized, and analyzed by their author. In this way, Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy. Intricate and intimate, Walter Benjamin's Archive leads readers to the heart of his intellectual world, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author.

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 Germany; 'Unpacking My Library', a delightful meditation on book-collecting; the confessional 'Hashish in Marseille'; and 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', his seminal essay on how technology changes the way we appreciate art. Also including writings on subjects ranging from Proust to Kafka, violence to surrealism, this is the essential volume on one of the most prescient critical voices of the modern age. Contains: 'Unpacking My Library'; 'One-Way Street'; 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'; 'Brief History of Photography'; 'Hashish in Marseille'; 'On the Critique of Violence'; 'The Job of the Translator'; 'Surrealism'; 'Franz Kafka' and 'Picturing Proust'.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) war ein französischer Schriftsteller und Kritiker. Prousts Hauptwerk ist Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit (À la recherche du temps perdu) in sieben Bänden. Dieser monumentale Roman ist eines der bedeutendsten erzählenden Werke des 20. Jahrhunderts. "Im Schatten der jungen Mädchen" und "Die Herzogin von Guermantes" sind die zwei Teile dieses Werkes. Inhalt: • Im Schatten der jungen Mädchen • Die Herzogin von Guermantes (Band 1&2) • Tage der Freuden: • Der Tod des Baldassar Sylvandre, Freiherrn von Sylvanie • Violante oder die Weltlichkeit • Fragmente einer italienischen Komödie • Weltlichkeit und Melomanie • Trauriger Landaufenthalt der Madame de Breyves • Die Beichte eines jungen Mädchens • Das große Diner • Trauer und Träume in allen Regenbogenfarben • Das Ende der Eifersucht • Im Schatten der jungen Mädchen: Der Roman spielt im Frankreich des Fin de siècle in der gehobenen Gesellschaft. Ein Ich-Erzähler berichtet von seinem Leben und vom Vorgang des Erinnerns. Der Ich-Erzähler stammt aus einer Familie des Pariser Bürgertums, die den Sommer üblicherweise bei Verwandten auf dem Land verbringt. Der Erzähler verbringt die Sommerfrische in dem fiktiven Badeort Balbec, ein Großteil der Handlung spielt im dortigen Grandhotel. Hier verliebt sich der Ich-Erzähler erstmals in die junge Albertine. • Die Herzogin von Guermantes: Der Ich-Erzähler steigt in der Welt des Adels auf und besucht die Salons. Hier macht er sich über das leere Geplauder der Menschen lustig, aber er ist auch fasziniert und kann sich nicht von ihnen trennen, um sein Werk zu schaffen. Die politischen Affären seiner Zeit interessieren ihn kaum. Er bekommt nur mit, dass die Dreyfus-Affäre es manchen Personen erlaubt, gesellschaftlich aufzusteigen, während sie andere zum Abstieg zwingt...

Aus dem Buch: "Die notwendige Richtung aufs Extreme, als welche in philosophischen Untersuchungen die Norm der Begriffsbildung gibt, hat für eine Darstellung vom Ursprung des deutschen Barocktrauerspiels zweierlei zu besagen. Erstens weist sie die Forschung an, unbefangen die Breite des Stoffes ins Auge zu fassen. Angesichts der ohnedies nicht allzu großen Fülle der dramatischen Produktion, soll ihr Anliegen nicht darin bestehen, in ihm, wie die Literaturgeschichte mit Recht dies täte, nach Schulen der Dichter, Epochen des œuvres, Schichten der Einzelwerke zu suchen." Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) war ein deutscher Philosoph, Kulturkritiker und Übersetzer der Werke von Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire und Marcel Proust. Als undogmatisch positionierter Denker und durch die enge Freundschaft zu u. a. Theodor W. Adorno kann er zum assoziierten Wirkungskreis der Frankfurter Schule gerechnet werden.

A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin''s work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin''s work. “The Storyteller” is one of Walter Benjamin’s most important essays, a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between narrative form, social life, and individual existence—and the product of at least a decade’s work. What might be called the story of The Storyteller Essays starts in 1926, with a piece Benjamin wrote about the German romantic Johann Peter Hebel. It continues in a series of short essays, book reviews, short stories, parables, and even radio shows for children. This collection brings them all together to give readers a new appreciation of how Benjamin’s thinking changed and ripened over time, while including several key readings of his own—texts by his contemporaries Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács; by Paul Valéry; and by Herodotus and Montaigne. Finally, to bring things around, there are three short stories by “the incomparable Hebel” with whom the whole intellectual adventure began.

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 modern allegory in its inscription of the abyssal.

Presented in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture, composed of 60 short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and theme, offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, writing in a vein that anticipates later masterpieces.

The life of literary critic and philosopher Benjamin (1892-1940) is a veritable allegory of the life of letters in the 20th century. Benjamin's intellectual odyssey included an eventful trip to the USSR. His stunning account of that journey is unique among his writings for the frank, merciless way he struggles with his motives and his conscience.

This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses of myth, violence, history, criticism, literature, and mass media.

The first stirrings of this most original of critical minds-penned during the years when he transformed himself from the comfortable son of a German Jewish family into the nomadic, boundary-crossing philosopher-critic we appreciate-have until now remained largely unavailable in English. Early Writings, 1910-1917 rectifies this situation.

Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts-on media and on culture in general. This book contains the second, and most daring, of the four versions of the "Work of Art" essay-the one that addresses the utopian developments of the modern media.

In these essays, Benjamin challenges the image of Baudelaire as late-Romantic dreamer, and evokes instead the modern poet caught in a life-or-death struggle with the forces of the urban commodity capitalism that had emerged in Paris around 1850.

Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood around 1900 is a recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century. In this diagram of his life, Benjamin focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, seen from the perspective of a child.

Walter Benjamin's posthumously published collection of writings on hashish is a detailed blueprint for a book that was never written. A series of "protocols of drug experiments," written between 1927 and 1934, together with short prose pieces, On Hashish provides a peculiarly intimate portrait of Benjamin and of his unique form of thought.

In this volume we find collected together Benjamin's most sensitive and probing writing on the dramatic and poetic work of his friend and tutor Bertolt Brecht. Benjamin's work still exerts an influence over philosophical and cultural thinking today.