Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings"This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century's fragments of shattered traditions." Time A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls

"This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century's fragments of shattered traditions." -- Time

A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin.
Benjamin moves seamlessly from literary criticism to autobiography to philosophical-theological speculations, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest and most versatile writers of the twentieth century.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 01/15/2019
ISBN: 9781328470225
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.20d