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Title: Selected Writings: 1913-1926 by Walter Benjamin, Marcus Bullock, Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith, Michael W. Jenning ISBN: 0-674-94585-9 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: December, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $46.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Introduction
Comment: Walter Benjamin has progressed over the years from an obscure lesser member of the Frankfurt School to a widely read leading member of that obscure school. Aided by such as Hannah Arendt, who introduced him to a wider audience in her writings (and also to me), readers have come to appreciate Benjamin for the beauty of his writing as well as his sharp insight.
This volume, along with its companion, is an excellent introduction to the style and thought of this man who, while out of step with his times, possessed the insight to give those times an original critique.
Possessed of a lively style and free from the Marxist bagge that weighs down his Frankfurt School colleagues such as Adorno and Horkheimer (I think Benjamin owes much more to Heidegger than Marx), Benjamin will hook any reader who takes the time to spend an hour or two with this book. From here it's an easy step to purchase other Benjamin writings, a step I can almost guarantee.
Rating: 5
Summary: Endlessly fascinating...
Comment: While his work is as important as Barthes, Foucault, or Derrida, or any other critic of the 20th Century, Benjamin's work has a mystical quality, a kind of enchantment, that resonates much more than any other critic I have read. It is always human and sensitive, even despite his determinedly impersonal tone.
When I think of Benjamin, I think of Emerson's famous line about Hawthorne - that he was a greater man than any of his works betray. The integrity and character of Walter Benjamin shines through his works, and is an inspiration to anyone who takes literature seriously.
This first volume of Bejamin's complete works is very attractive and welcome. Some of my favorite essays are present, such as his essays on children's literature, and the nature of language. I eagerly await the other two volumes.
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Title: Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 3, 1935-1938 by Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland, Michael W. Jennings ISBN: 0674008960 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 4, 1938-1940 by Walter Benjamin ISBN: 0674010760 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland, Kevin McLaughlin ISBN: 0674008022 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Illuminations by Walter Benjamin ISBN: 0805202412 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 13 January, 1969 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940 by Walter Benjamin, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno ISBN: 0674006895 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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