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Reflections
- Author
- Walter Benjamin
- Narrator
- Stefan Rudnicki
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 26 February 2022
- Run Time
- 15 hours 13 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin’s writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin.
Benjamin moves seamlessly from literary criticism to autobiography to philosophical-theological speculations, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest and most versatile writers of the twentieth century.
Critics Review
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“This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century’s fragments of shattered traditions.”
Time
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“Benjamin is a legitimate ancestor of much that for the moment is most alive in criticism.”
The Nation
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Details
- Author
- Walter Benjamin
- Narrator
- Stefan Rudnicki
- Duration
- 15 hours 13 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 February 2022
- ISBN
- 9798200808342
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy
Synopsis
A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin’s writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin.Benjamin moves seamlessly from literary criticism to autobiography to philosophical-theological speculations, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest and most versatile writers of the twentieth century.
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