One-Way Street
And Other Writings
$38.61
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2021
Summary
Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions.
This collection, introduced by Susan Sontag, contains the most representative and illuminating selection of his work over a twenty-year period, and thus does full justice to the richness and the multi-dimensional nature of his thought. I…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781839761652 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1839761652 |
| Author: | Walter Benjamin, Edmund Jephcott, Kingsley Shorter, Susan Sontag |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 330g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 25mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
The most important German aesthetician and literary critic of this century – George SteinerBenjamin was one of the unclassifiable ones … whose work neither fits the existing order nor introduces a new genre. – Hannah ArendtBenjamin was the interlocutor of all the demons and angels of storytelling. And this is why he knew its endless secrets. Listen to him. – John BergerA complex and brilliant writer * J. M. Coetzee *
About The Author
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.
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