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Aesthetics and Politics by Theodor W. Adorno (Author) , Walter Benjamin (Author) , Ernst Bloch (Author) , Bertolt Brecht (Author) , Georg Lukacs (Author)
$17.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Features the text in the great controversies over literature and art between thinkers who have become giants of 20th-century philosophy.
Aesthetics and Politics by Theodor W. Adorno; Walter Benjamin; Ernst Bloch; Bertolt Brecht; Georg Lukacs
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature. With an afterword by Fredric Jameson No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which ...Show more
Berlin Childhood Around 1900 by Walter Benjamin (Howard Eiland transl.)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered "final version" ...Show more
Charles Baudelaire - A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism by Walter Benjamin; Harry Zohn (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire's life and work Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history. Yet it was thr ...Show more
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
$28.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time." -- George Steiner Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on ...Show more
Illuminations - Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
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$32.95 (10% off)
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: good
Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century.
On Hashish by Walter Benjamin
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Provides an intimate portrait of Walter Benjamin, venturesome at the end of the Weimar Republic, and of his unique form of thought. This English-language edition features a section of supplementary materials - drawn from Benjamin's essays, letters and sketches - relating to hashish use, as well as a rem ...Show more
One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin; Michael W. Jennings; Edmund Jephcott; Greil Marcus
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature--by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offe ...Show more
One-Way Street: And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions. This collection, introduced by Susan Sontag, contain ...Show more
One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including "One-Way Street", his dreamlike, aphoristic observations of urban life in Weimar Germ ...Show more
Radio Benjamin by Walter Benjamin
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Category: New Hardbacks
From 1927 to 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and presented more than eighty broadcasts over the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers, for the first time in English, the surviving transcripts. This eclectic collection shows the range of Benjamin's thinking and includes stories for young and old, plays ...Show more
Radio Benjamin by Walter Benjamin; Lecia Rosenthal (Editor); Jonathan Lutes (Translator); Lisa Harries Schumann (Translator); Diana Reese (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From 1927 to 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and presented more than eighty broadcasts over the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers, for the first time in English, the surviving transcripts. This eclectic collection shows the range of Benjamin's thinking and includes stories for young and old, plays ...Show more