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  • Reflections

    Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    The towering twentieth century thinker delve into literature, philosophy, and his own life experience in this "extraordinary collection" ( Publishers Weekly).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 ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Illuminations

    Essays and Reflections

    by Walter Benjamin, Leon Wieseltier ...
    Translated by Henry Zohn ...
    Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.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 Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Unpacking My Library

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    Series series ERIS gems
    “I fully realize that my discussion of the mental climate of collecting will confirm many of you in your conviction that this passion is behind the times, in your distrust of the collector type. Nothing is further from my mind than to shake either your conviction or your distrust.”Walter Benjamin was one of the great cultural critics of the twentieth century. In Unpacking My Library he offers a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly – and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Charles Baudelaire

    A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    A classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire's life and workWalter 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 through his study of the social and cultural history of the late nineteenth-century Paris, examined ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Understanding Brecht

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Translated by Anna Bostock ...
    A collection of essays of political philosophy by the renowned mid 20th-century critical theorist and literary criticThe relationship between philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin and playwright-poet Bertolt Brecht was both a lasting friendship and a powerful intellectual partnership. Having met in the late 1920s in Germany, Benjamin and Brecht, both independently minded Marxists with a deep ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Aesthetics and Politics

    by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukacs ...
    Series series Radical Thinkers
    No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • One-Way Street

    by Walter Benjamin, Greil Marcus ...
    Translated by Edmund Jephcott ...
    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 offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • Origin of the German Trauerspiel

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Translated by Howard Eiland ...
    Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin’s first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as “The Origin of German Tragic Drama,” but in fact the subject is something else—the play of mourning. Howard Eiland’s completely new English translation, the first since 1977, is closer to the German text and more consistent with Benjamin’s philosophical ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • The Storyteller Essays

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Translated by Tess Lewis ...
    A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work.“The Storyteller” is one of Walter Benjamin’s most important essays, a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Walter Benjamin's Archive

    Images, Texts, Signs

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin’s personal manuscripts, images, and documentsThe work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, assortments of images, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Toward the Critique of Violence

    A Critical Edition

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory.The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contemporaneous texts to ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD