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Books : Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical WritingsIn association with Amazon.comby: Walter Benjamin  List Price: $16.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.88 You Save: $5.12 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 834.912 EAN: 9780805208023 ISBN: 080520802X Label: Schocken Manufacturer: Schocken Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: March 12, 1986 Publisher: Schocken Release Date: March 12, 1986 Studio: Schocken Sales Rank: 86012 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: "This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century's fragments of shattered traditions." - Time Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Criticism at its bestBenjamin is an extremely powerful writer. I bought this book specifically for Zur Kritik Der Gewalt, but I've enjoyed other essays. Rating: - A Portable BenjaminThere is much to love about Walter Benjamin. His is a supple, syncretic, synthetic mind, and his prose just sings-even in translation. Because Benjamin roamed about in whole territorities of thought, it's nearly impossible to draw together a representative selection of his essays without overlooking something important. The collection Illuminations is a delgith; Reflections, a kind of companion volume, includes much material that reflects the Benjamin corpus from a non-Illuminations trajectory. ... Read More Rating: - Wise and witty, with a keen eye for detailThis collection of Benjamin essays was selected and introduced by Peter Demetz based on an order prepared by Hannah Arendt. It is a companion piece to Illuminations, a siimilar volume prepared and introduced by Arendt in the late sixties. Unlike Illuminations, which focuses on the literary essays Benjamin wrote, Reflections is intended to present a wide variety of subject and style. In his introduction, Demetz urges the reader to listen to Benjamin in a musical rather than a literary ... Read More Rating: - "A Highly Polished Mind"Reflections presents for the reader the great range that Benjamin had as a writer, critic and occidentalist. This collection further demonstrates Benjamin's acute awareness of the literature of his time, as evidenced by his essay on 'Surrealism', which is as fine a reflection on its themes as the manifestos of Andre Breton. Furthermore, his writings and conversations with Bertolt Brecht show Benjamin to be very close to the thinking of the author himself. Also included is his celebrated essay on ... Read More Rating:  - Reflections:I think that this book is a forgery by appenine fascist youth. Like most of this book's readers, they took their master plan far too seriously. It's this inability to laugh which makes the work canonical, but nonetheless a product of unknown authorship. Browse for similar items by category:
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