Walter Benjamin - Böcker

Walter Benjamin (18921940) var en tysk filosof och litteraturkritiker. I december 1926 reste han mot Moskva. Väl framme förde han under två månader dagbok över sin vistelse. Tiden är bara inte politiskt turbulent utan också estetiskt omvälvande. Ä...

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Tog hasch klockan sju på kvällen efter att ha tvekat en lång stund. På dagen hade jag varit i Aix. Jag skriver ned det som följer endast för att kunna fastställa om några effekter infinner sig eller inte, eftersom min ensamma tillvaro inte medger ...

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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 the Translator' and 'Theses on the Phi...

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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 ...

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No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies ...

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Kulturkritikern Walter Benjamin (1892?1940) hade med sig anteckningsboken överallt och satt ofta och skrev på kaféer. Kanske bidrog den omständigheten till den sinnliga fräschör och improvisatoriska rörlighet som kännetecknar också hans mest intri...

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I Walter Benjamins livsprojekt, nu en modern klassiker, finns varken början eller slut. Under olika rubriker samlas tankar, fantasieggande citat, minimala essäer, ögonblicksbilder och hugskott. Man kan när som helst dyka ner i detta verk, en labyr...

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Walter Benjamin (1892?1840) var en djupt originell litteratur- och kulturkritiker. Han var forskare, översättare, samlare och flanör och skrev banbrytande texter om bland annat den moderna urbana tillvaron ("Paris ? 1800-talets huvudstad", ett tre...

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Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history. Yet it was through his study of the social and cul...

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"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Pro...

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I Walter Benjamins (1892-1940) författarskap utgör doktorsavhandlingen Begreppet konstkritik i den tyska romantiken (1920) ett övergångsverk. Här binds de tidiga kunskaps- och språkfilosofiska texterna samman med essän om Goethes Valfrändskaperna ...

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Innehåll: Vad är den episka teatern? Studier till den episka teaterns teori Ur Brechtkommentaren Ett familjedrama på den episka teatern Landet där proletariatet inte får nämnas Kommentarer till dikter av Brecht Brechts tolvskillingsroman Författar...

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Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant port...

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"I fully realize that my discussion of the mental climate of collecting will confirm many of you in your conviction that this passion is behind the times, in your distrust of the collector type. Nothing is further from my mind than to shake either...

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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 im...

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Walter Benjamin's essay 'A Short History of Photography' (1931) made bold statements about photographic pioneers such as David Octavius Hill and Nicéphore Niépce, and the social and historical context of their work. This first selection of Benjami...

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Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brill...

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"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attemp...

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Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin's first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as "The Origin of German Tragic Drama," but in fact the subject is something else-the play of mourning. Howa...

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Nearly one-third of the land area on our planet is classified as arid or desert. Therefore, an understanding of the dynamics of such arid ecosystems is essential to managing those systems in a way that sustains human populations. This second editi...

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Nearly one-third of the land area on our planet is classified as arid or desert. Therefore, an understanding of the dynamics of such arid ecosystems is essential to managing those systems in a way that sustains human populations. This second editi...

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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 dreaml...

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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 dreaml...

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Called "the most important critic of his time" by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has also emerged as one of the most compelling thinkers of our time, his work assuming a crucial place in current debates over the interactions of art, cult...

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Called "the most important critic of his time" by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has assumed a crucial place in current debates over the interactions of art, culture, and meaning. A "nat...

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Called "e;the most important critic of his time"e; by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has assumed a crucial place in current debates over the interactions of art, culture, and mea...

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