Illuminations

Name: Illuminations
Author: Walter Benjamin
ISBN: 9780547540658

by Walter Benjamin

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Originally Illuminationen · German

Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt. Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical...

First published 1961 291 pages

Category: Literary Criticism
Priority: Recommended
Author works: 3
Editions known: 29

Classification

DDC 809 LCC PN-0037.00000000.B4413 2019 Addresses, essays, lecturesCriticismGerman literatureHistory and criticismLiteratureLiterature, history and criticismLiterature--history and criticismPHILOSOPHY

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