Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940

Illuminations by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
83 editions published between 1955 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 2,430 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 arcades project by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
74 editions published between 1982 and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 1,462 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. 46 illustrations

The origin of German tragic drama by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
36 editions published between 1977 and 2009 in English and German and held by 1,002 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."--BOOK JACKET

Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
57 editions published between 1963 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 634 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Understanding Brecht by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
30 editions published between 1973 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 590 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The writer of modern life : essays on Charles Baudelaire by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
7 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 571 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

Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit; drei Studien zur Kunstsoziologie by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
92 editions published between 1963 and 2010 in German and Undetermined and held by 537 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Charles Baudelaire: a lyric poet in the era of high capitalism by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
18 editions published between 1973 and 1997 in English and German and held by 481 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Gesammelte Schriften by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
117 editions published between 1972 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 477 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
With a provisional 'Inhaltsverzeichnis' for Bd 1-4 (70p ; 1977)

Illuminationen; ausgewählte Schriften by Walter Benjamin ( Book )
62 editions published between 1955 and 2012 in German and Undetermined and held by 474 WorldCat member libraries worldwide