Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940

Illuminations by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
59 editions published between 1955 and 2008 in 6 languages and held by 1,887 libraries worldwide
Includes one essay on art and another on the philosophy of history.

The arcades project by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
69 editions published between 1971 and 2010 in 11 languages and held by 1,094 libraries worldwide
Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources. 46 illustrations.

The origin of German tragic drama by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
63 editions published between 1928 and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 1,032 libraries worldwide
"Walter Benjamin is widely acknowledged as amongst the greatest literary critics of this century, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama is his most sustained and original work. Opponents of Benjamin's aesthetics - singled out this work as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century." "The Origin of German Tragic Drama begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel. Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer, and the theatre of Shakespeare and Calderon. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history."--BOOK JACKET.

Selected writings by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
58 editions published between 1996 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 951 libraries worldwide

Reflections : essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
16 editions published between 1978 and 2007 in English and German and held by 749 libraries worldwide

The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility, and other writings on media by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
48 editions published between 1963 and 2011 in 10 languages and held by 698 libraries worldwide

Understanding Brecht by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
47 editions published between 1966 and 2003 in 7 languages and held by 668 libraries worldwide

Moscow diary by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
65 editions published between 1980 and 2008 in 11 languages and held by 650 libraries worldwide
Essays based on the life style and culture of Moscow, Russia and the life of Federico García Lorca, 1898-1936, a Spanish poet and dramatist.

On hashish by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
32 editions published between 1972 and 2006 in 9 languages and held by 569 libraries worldwide
"Walter Benjamin's posthumously published collection of writings on hashish is a detailed blueprint for a book that was never written - a "truly exceptional book about hashish," as Benjamin describes it in a letter to his friend Gershom Scholem. A series of "protocols of drug experiments," written by himself and his co-participants in the years 1927-1934, together with short prose pieces that he published during his lifetime, On Hashish provides a portrait of Benjamin, venturesome as ever at the end of the Weimar Republic, and of his unique form of thought." "Consciously placing himself in a tradition of literary drug-connoisseurs from Baudelaire to Hermann Hesse, Benjamin looked to hashish and other drugs for an initiation into what he called "profane illumination." At issue here is a way of seeing, a new connection to the ordinary world. Under the influence of hashish, as time and space becomes inseparable, what Benjamin, in his study of Surrealism, calls "image space" comes vividly to life in this philosophical immersion in the sensuous." "This English-language edition of On Hashish features a section of supplementary materials - drawn from Benjamin's essays, letters, and sketches. A foreword by Howard Eiland discusses the leading motifs in Benjamin's reflections on intoxication."--BOOK JACKET.

Berlin childhood around 1900 by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
64 editions published between 1950 and 2009 in 11 languages and held by 554 libraries worldwide
Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime. Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered final version that contains the author's own arrangement of a suite of luminous vignettes, it can be more widely appreciated as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century prose writing. This book is also one of Benjamin's great city texts, bringing to life the cocoon of his childhood--the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of an emerging metropolis. It reads the city as palimpsest and labyrinth, revealing unexpected lyricism in the heart of the familiar.