Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1: 1913-1926

Benjamin, Walter

ISBN 10: 0674945859 / ISBN 13: 9780674945852

Published by Belknap Press, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1: 1913-1926
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674945859
• ISBN 13: 9780674945852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting, and much more. He is as compelling and insightful when musing on riddles or children's books as he is when dealing with symbolic logic or epistemology.

Review

"To encounter Benjamin's piece ["The Life of a Students"] is like overhearing the opening notes of one of the most intellectually compelling friendships of our century. It is greatly to the credit of Harvard University Press to have made the text finally available to English-speaking readers. In general, the editors of this volume have made an exemplary choice of what to include, and when their projected multi-volume section is complete, it will constitute the most important compilation of Benjamin's writings outside the mammoth German Collected Works." - Michael Andre Bernstein, New Republic"