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A selection of the literary and philosophical essays written by Walter Benjamin accompanied by an introduction by Hannah Arendt.
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"From the evidence of this book I would suggest that Benjamin was one of the great European writers of this century." (Philip Toynbee Observer)
"He explained the modern with an authority that fifty years of unpredictable change have not vitiated." (Frank Kermode New York Review of Books)
"Like Baudelaire, Benjamin brings the very new into shocking conjunction with the very old...He is in search of a surrealist history and politics, one which clings tenaciously to the fragment, the miniature, the stray citation, but which impacts these fragments one upon the other to politically explosive effect, like the Messiah who will transfigure the world completely by making minor adjustments to it" (Terry Eagleton The Ideology of the Aesthetic)
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"He explained the modern with an authority that fifty years of unpredictable change have not vitiated." (Frank Kermode New York Review of Books)
"Like Baudelaire, Benjamin brings the very new into shocking conjunction with the very old...He is in search of a surrealist history and politics, one which clings tenaciously to the fragment, the miniature, the stray citation, but which impacts these fragments one upon the other to politically explosive effect, like the Messiah who will transfigure the world completely by making minor adjustments to it" (Terry Eagleton The Ideology of the Aesthetic)
A now legendary collection of seminal essays by one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0224618253
- ISBN 13 9780224618250
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
- EditorArendt Hannah
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