Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
Overview
| Works: | 3,642 works in 10,309 publications in 11 languages and 176,496 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History Biography Literature Records and correspondence Essays |
| Subject Headings: | Authors, German |
| Roles: | Author, Editor, Translator, Honoree, Creator, Illustrator, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Other, zxx, Collector, Contributor, wpr, Dedicatee, Author of introduction, Collaborator, Commentator, Commentator for written text, Arranger, Performer, Artist, Narrator, wat, Recipient, Adapter |
| Classifications: | PT2603.E455, 809 |
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Most widely held works about
Walter Benjamin
- Reflections : essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings by Walter Benjamin( Book )
- Walter Benjamin : a critical life by Howard Eiland( Book )
- Benjamin's -abilities by Samuel Weber( Book )
- Walter Benjamin : overpowering conformism by Esther Leslie( Book )
- Profane illumination : Walter Benjamin and the Paris of surrealist revolution by Margaret Cohen( Book )
- Walter Benjamin and art( Book )
- Melancholy dialectics : Walter Benjamin and the play of mourning by Max Pensky( Book )
- Picturing ourselves : photography & autobiography by Linda Haverty Rugg( Book )
- Walter Benjamin's other history : of stones, animals, human beings, and angels by Beatrice Hanssen( Book )
- Cinema and experience : Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno by Miriam Hansen( Book )
- Fragments of redemption : Jewish thought and literary theory in Benjamin, Scholem, and Levinas by Susan A Handelman( Book )
- On creaturely life : Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald by Eric L Santner( Book )
- Walter Benjamin : the colour of experience by Howard Caygill( Book )
- Reading Borges after Benjamin : allegory, afterlife, and the writing of history by Kate Jenckes( Book )
- Metaphysics of the profane : the political theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem by Eric Jacobson( Book )
- Walter Benjamin, an aesthetic of redemption by Richard Wolin( Book )
- The promise of memory : history and politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida by Matthias Fritsch( Book )
- Body- and image-space : re-reading Walter Benjamin by Sigrid Weigel( Book )
- Walter Benjamin and history by Andrew E Benjamin( Book )
- Present hope : philosophy, architecture, Judaism by Andrew E Benjamin( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Walter Benjamin
Illuminations by
Walter Benjamin(
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95 editions published between 1955 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 2,544 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This book contains studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater. Also included are his penetrating study on "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," an illuminating discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his thesis on the philosophy of history. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and prefaces them with a substantial, admirably informed introduction that presents Benjamin's personality and intellectual development, as well as his work and his life in dark times. - Publisher
95 editions published between 1955 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 2,544 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This book contains studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater. Also included are his penetrating study on "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," an illuminating discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his thesis on the philosophy of history. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and prefaces them with a substantial, admirably informed introduction that presents Benjamin's personality and intellectual development, as well as his work and his life in dark times. - Publisher
The origin of German tragic drama by
Walter Benjamin(
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55 editions published between 1977 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 1,205 WorldCat member 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."--Jacket
55 editions published between 1977 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 1,205 WorldCat member 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."--Jacket
The arcades project by
Walter Benjamin(
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29 editions published between 1999 and 2003 in English and held by 1,143 WorldCat member 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
29 editions published between 1999 and 2003 in English and held by 1,143 WorldCat member 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
Charles Baudelaire: a lyric poet in the era of high capitalism by
Walter Benjamin(
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104 editions published between 1969 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 904 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
104 editions published between 1969 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 904 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Understanding Brecht by
Walter Benjamin(
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89 editions published between 1969 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 838 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
89 editions published between 1969 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 838 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels by
Walter Benjamin(
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90 editions published between 1928 and 2016 in 4 languages and held by 779 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
90 editions published between 1928 and 2016 in 4 languages and held by 779 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Gesammelte Schriften by
Walter Benjamin(
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116 editions published between 1974 and 2006 in German and Undetermined and held by 666 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
116 editions published between 1974 and 2006 in German and Undetermined and held by 666 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit; drei Studien zur Kunstsoziologie by
Walter Benjamin(
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113 editions published between 1963 and 2012 in German and Italian and held by 649 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
113 editions published between 1963 and 2012 in German and Italian and held by 649 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The writer of modern life : essays on Charles Baudelaire by
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8 editions published in 2006 in English and German and held by 591 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Walter Benjamin's essays on the great French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire revolutionized not just the way we think about Baudelaire, but our understanding of modernity and modernism as well. In these essays, Benjamin challenges the image of Baudelaire as late-Romantic dreamer, and evokes instead the modern poet caught in a life-or-death struggle with the forces of the urban commodity capitalism that had emerged in Paris around 1850. The Baudelaire who steps forth from these pages is the flâneur who affixes images as he strolls through mercantile Paris, the ragpicker who collects urban detritus only to turn it into poetry, the modern hero willing to be marked by modern life in its contradictions and paradoxes. He is in every instance the modern artist forced to commodify his literary production: "Baudelaire knew how it stood with the poet: as a flâneur he went to the market; to look it over, as he thought, but in reality to find a buyer." Benjamin reveals Baudelaire as a social poet of the very first rank. --Publisher
8 editions published in 2006 in English and German and held by 591 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Walter Benjamin's essays on the great French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire revolutionized not just the way we think about Baudelaire, but our understanding of modernity and modernism as well. In these essays, Benjamin challenges the image of Baudelaire as late-Romantic dreamer, and evokes instead the modern poet caught in a life-or-death struggle with the forces of the urban commodity capitalism that had emerged in Paris around 1850. The Baudelaire who steps forth from these pages is the flâneur who affixes images as he strolls through mercantile Paris, the ragpicker who collects urban detritus only to turn it into poetry, the modern hero willing to be marked by modern life in its contradictions and paradoxes. He is in every instance the modern artist forced to commodify his literary production: "Baudelaire knew how it stood with the poet: as a flâneur he went to the market; to look it over, as he thought, but in reality to find a buyer." Benjamin reveals Baudelaire as a social poet of the very first rank. --Publisher
Illuminationen; ausgewählte Schriften by
Walter Benjamin(
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70 editions published between 1955 and 2012 in German and Undetermined and held by 503 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
70 editions published between 1955 and 2012 in German and Undetermined and held by 503 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Reflections : essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings by
Walter Benjamin(
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27 editions published between 1976 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 498 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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. He 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. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times
27 editions published between 1976 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 498 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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. He 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. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times
Der Begriff der Kunstkritik in der deutschen Romantik by
Walter Benjamin(
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41 editions published between 1919 and 2008 in German and Undetermined and held by 473 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
41 editions published between 1919 and 2008 in German and Undetermined and held by 473 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Angelus novus : ausgewählte Schriften, 2 by
Walter Benjamin(
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74 editions published between 1955 and 2014 in 6 languages and held by 463 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"La figura di Benjamin è di quelle che si prestano più difficilmente alla definizione e collocazione critica. Saggista e critico letterario, il significato e l'intenzione dell'opera trascendono tuttavia i limiti della critica, o della storia letteraria nella accezione corrente. La sua originalità di pensatore fu piuttosto tutt'uno con la sua attività d'interprete e di critico, e si costituisce fondamentalmente solo in essa... La presente raccolta comprende proprio quelle che si possono considerare le eccezioni dell'opera di Benjamin: come il saggio su diritto e violenza, quello sulla traduzione, o il manoscritto inedito sulla lingua." (Dall'introduzione di Renato Solmi)
74 editions published between 1955 and 2014 in 6 languages and held by 463 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"La figura di Benjamin è di quelle che si prestano più difficilmente alla definizione e collocazione critica. Saggista e critico letterario, il significato e l'intenzione dell'opera trascendono tuttavia i limiti della critica, o della storia letteraria nella accezione corrente. La sua originalità di pensatore fu piuttosto tutt'uno con la sua attività d'interprete e di critico, e si costituisce fondamentalmente solo in essa... La presente raccolta comprende proprio quelle che si possono considerare le eccezioni dell'opera di Benjamin: come il saggio su diritto e violenza, quello sulla traduzione, o il manoscritto inedito sulla lingua." (Dall'introduzione di Renato Solmi)
Versuche über Brecht by
Walter Benjamin(
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57 editions published between 1966 and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 460 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
57 editions published between 1966 and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 460 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Gesammelte Schriften by
Walter Benjamin(
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57 editions published between 1972 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 345 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
57 editions published between 1972 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 345 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Briefwechsel, 1928-1940 by
Theodor W Adorno(
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38 editions published between 1993 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 331 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
38 editions published between 1993 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 331 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Unpacking my library : architects and their books by
Walter Benjamin(
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12 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and Catalan and held by 315 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"What does a library say about the mind of its owner? How do books map the intellectual interests, curiosities, tastes, and personalities of their readers? What does the collecting of books have in common with the practice of architecture? Unpacking My Library provides an intimate look at the personal libraries of twelve of the world's leading architects, alongside conversations about the significance of books to their careers and lives. Photographs of bookshelves -- displaying well-loved and rare volumes, eclectic organizational schemes, and the individual touches that make a bookshelf one's own -- provide an evocative glimpse of their owner's personal life. Each architect also presents a reading list of top ten influential titles, from architectural history to theory to fiction and nonfiction, that serves as a personal philosophy of literature and history, and advice on what every young architect, scholar, and lover of architecture should read."--Publisher description
12 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and Catalan and held by 315 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"What does a library say about the mind of its owner? How do books map the intellectual interests, curiosities, tastes, and personalities of their readers? What does the collecting of books have in common with the practice of architecture? Unpacking My Library provides an intimate look at the personal libraries of twelve of the world's leading architects, alongside conversations about the significance of books to their careers and lives. Photographs of bookshelves -- displaying well-loved and rare volumes, eclectic organizational schemes, and the individual touches that make a bookshelf one's own -- provide an evocative glimpse of their owner's personal life. Each architect also presents a reading list of top ten influential titles, from architectural history to theory to fiction and nonfiction, that serves as a personal philosophy of literature and history, and advice on what every young architect, scholar, and lover of architecture should read."--Publisher description
Myth and metropolis : Walter Benjamin and the city by
Graeme Gilloch(
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2 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 311 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A study of Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience. Benjamin's critical account of the modern urban environment is traced through a number of key texts. This book highlights their relevance for our contemporary understanding of modernity
2 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 311 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A study of Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience. Benjamin's critical account of the modern urban environment is traced through a number of key texts. This book highlights their relevance for our contemporary understanding of modernity
Charles Baudelaire : un poète lyrique à l'apogée du capitalisme by
Walter Benjamin(
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41 editions published between 1974 and 2004 in French and Undetermined and held by 310 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
41 editions published between 1974 and 2004 in French and Undetermined and held by 310 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Deutsche Menschen; eine Folge von Briefen by
Walter Benjamin(
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56 editions published between 1962 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 306 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of literary letters by major German writers, philosophers and politicians. Spans the period 1783-1883
56 editions published between 1962 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 306 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of literary letters by major German writers, philosophers and politicians. Spans the period 1783-1883
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Related Identities
- Adorno, Theodor W. 1903-1969 Other Contributor Author of introduction Collaborator Honoree Author Editor Creator Author of afterword, colophon, etc. Compiler
- Scholem, Gershom 1897-1982 Other Editor Author of introduction Author Contributor Compiler
- Benjamin, Andrew E. Other Author Editor
- Tiedemann, Rolf Other Adapter Author of introduction Publishing director Author Editor Creator Author of afterword, colophon, etc. Originator
- Jennings, Michael William Author of introduction Other Author Editor
- Arendt, Hannah 1906-1975 Other Author of introduction Speaker Author Editor Honoree
- Brecht, Bertolt 1898-1956 Honoree Author
- Kracauer, Siegfried 1889-1966 Author Creator
- Eiland, Howard Other Adapter Author Editor Translator
- Mazal Holocaust Collection
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Adorno, Theodor W., Aesthetics Aesthetics, German Arcades Architects--Books and reading Art and society Art criticism Authors, German Autobiography Baudelaire, Charles, Benjamin, Walter, Best books Borges, Jorge Luis, Brecht, Bertolt, Cities and towns in literature Experience France--Paris German drama (Tragedy) German literature Germany Grief in literature History in literature History--Philosophy Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Intellectual life Intellectuals Jews--Cultural assimilation Judaism Kracauer, Siegfried, Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit (Benjamin, Walter) Lévinas, Emmanuel Literature Manners and customs Melancholy in literature Motion pictures Philosophy Philosophy, German Philosophy, Marxist Photography--Philosophy Psychoanalysis and literature Rilke, Rainer Maria, Romanticism Scholem, Gershom, Sebald, W. G.--(Winfried Georg), Self-realization in literature Strindberg, August, Surrealism Tragedy Twain, Mark, Wolf, Christa
Alternative Names
Ardor
Ardor 1892-1940
Banyaming 1892-1940
Benjamin.
Benʹjamin, Valʹter 1892-1940
Benjamin W. 1892-1940
Benjamin W. B. S. 1892-1940
Benjamin, W. (Walter), 1892-1940
Benjamin, Walter
Benjamin, Walter Bendix Schönflies
Benjamin Walter Bendix Schönflies 1892-1940
Benjamins, Valters 1892-1940
Benʼyamin, Varutā 1892-1940
Benyāmîn, Walṭer 1892-1940
Benyaming, Waerte 1892-1940
Binyāmīn, Fāltir 1892-1940
Binyamin V. 1892-1940
Binyamin, Ṿalṭer 1892-1940
Binyāmîn, Walṭer 1892-1940
Binyamiyn, Walṭer
Binyamiyn Walṭer 1892-1940
Conrad, C. 1892-1940
Gualterius Benjamin
Holz D. 1892-1940
Holz, Detlef.
Holz Detlef 1892-1940
Holz, Detlev
Holz Detlev 1892-1940
Mpengiamin, Balter 1892-1940
Peñcamin̲, Vālṭṭar 1892-1940
Schönflies, Benedix
Schönflies, Benedix, 1892-1940
Valters Benjamins
Wa er te Ben ya ming 1892-1940
Waerte-Benyaming 1892-1940
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin Alemaniar literatura-kritikari eta filosofoa
Walter Benjamin Duits filosoof
Walter Benjamin filósofo, crítico literario, crítico social, traductor, locutor de radio y ensayista alemán
Walter Benjamin filosofo e scrittore tedesco
Walter Benjamin German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)
Walter Benjamin német filozófus, irodalomkritikus, esszéista, 1892-1940
Walter Benjamin niemiecki filozof, teoretyki kultury, tłumacz, krytyk literacki i eseista
Walter Benjamin philosophe, critique littéraire, critique d’art et traducteur allemand
Βάλτερ Μπένγιαμιν Γερμανός κριτικός και φιλόσοφος
Беньямин В. 1892-1940
Беньямин, Вальтер 1892-1940
Валтер Бенямин
Валтер Бенјамин
Валтер Бенјамин германски филозоф, општествен и книжевен критичар
Вальтер Беньямин немецкий философ, теоретик истории, эстетик, историк фотографии, литературный критик, писатель и переводчик
Вальтер Беньямін
בנימין, ולטר
בנימין, ולטר 1892־1940
בנימין, ולטר 1892־1940־־הרצאות, מאמרים, שיחות
ולטר בנימין
ולטר, בנימין 1892-1940
والتر بنيامين
والتر بنیامین
ਵਾਲਟਰ ਬੈਂਜਾਮਿਨ
발터 벤야민
벤야민, W. 1892-1940
벤야민, 발터 1892-1940
ヴァルター・ベンヤミン
ヴァルター・ベンヤミン 1892-1940
ベンヤミン, W
ベンヤミン, ヴァルター
ベンヤミン, ヴァルタ- 1892-1940
本雅明, 瓦尓徳
本雅明, 瓦尓特
本雅明, 瓦尔特 1892-1940
沃尓特・本雅明
瓦尓徳・本雅明
瓦尔特·本雅明
瓦尔特‧本雅明 1892-1940
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