Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings

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By Walter Benjamin

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In the turbulent final years of the Weimar Republic, Walter Benjamin stands out as a profoundly original literary critic and public intellectual. Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings Volume 2, divided into two parts, presents his seminal essays and diverse commentaries. Part 1 includes essays such as "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust," alongside writings on Goethe and various newspaper commentaries from Weimar Germany. Part 2 offers extended essays on Franz Kafka, Karl Kraus, and "The Author as Producer," as well as Benjamin's autobiographical "A Berlin Chronicle," and discussions on photography, language, memory, and notable cultural figures.
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Philosophy and literary theory enthusiasts, scholars of German intellectual history, and readers interested in cultural criticism and modernist literature will find this volume invaluable.

Collected here are “Franz Kafka,” “Karl Kraus,” and “The Author as Producer,” the meditation “A Berlin Chronicle,” discussions of photography and the French writer, and previously untranslated pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, Valery, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.

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In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practising literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings is now available in paperback in two parts.

In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust", as well as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection of his wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers.

Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays, "Franz Kafka", "Karl Kraus", and "The Author as Producer", the extended autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle", and extended discussions of the history of photography and the social situation of the French writer. It also includes previously untranslated shorter pieces on subjects such as language and memory, theological criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, and on influential figures like Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.

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ISBN: 9780674017467

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 June 2005

Country: United States

Imprint: The Belknap Press

Illustration: 8 halftones

Contributors:

Series edited by Gary Smith
Series edited by Howard Eiland
Series edited by Michael W. Jennings

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 162.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 480

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Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Series: Volume 2 Walter Benjamin

About the Author

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis. Michael W. Jennings is Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages at Princeton University. Howard Eiland is an editor and translator of Benjamin’s writings. Gary Smith is an editor at work on the Einstein Papers project.