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Early Writings, 1910-1917 documents the formative intellectual experiences of one of the twentieth century's most independent thinkers.
Walter Benjamin: Early writings 1910-1917
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Walter Benjamin: archives
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Cet ouvrage se compose teizes archives rassemblant images, textes, photographies et schémas de Walter Benjamin. Elles sont fort complexes et très personnelles, parfois marginales, et pourtant elles mènent au centre de son œuvre. Elles tracent un portrait de l’auteur.
Walter Benjamin: archives
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Cet ouvrage se compose teizes archives rassemblant images, textes, photographies et schémas de Walter Benjamin. Elles sont fort complexes et très personnelles, parfois marginales, et pourtant elles mènent au centre de son œuvre. Elles tracent un portrait de l’auteur.
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This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including "One-Way Street", his dreamlike, aphoristic observations of urban life in Weimar Germany; "Unpacking My Library", a delightful meditation on book-collecting; the confessional "Hashish in Marseille"; and, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", his seminal essay on how technology changes(...)
Walter Benjamin : One way street and other writings
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This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including "One-Way Street", his dreamlike, aphoristic observations of urban life in Weimar Germany; "Unpacking My Library", a delightful meditation on book-collecting; the confessional "Hashish in Marseille"; and, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", his seminal essay on how technology changes the way we appreciate art. Also including writings on subjects ranging from Proust to Kafka, violence to surrealism, this is the essential volume on one of the most prescient critical voices of the modern age.
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Ne regardez jamais l'appareil.
Walter Benjamin : Petite histoire de la photographie
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Theory of Photography
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Voici un ouvrage d'un genre nouveau, dans lequel Walter Benjamin pratique le collage à la manière de ces amoureux des télescopages poétiques que furent Dada et les surréalistes. 'Rue à sens unique' se compose de notes autobiographiques, de souvenirs d'enfance, d'aphorismes, de scènes de la vie urbaine, de considérations acérées sur l'état du monde, et de l'Allemagne en(...)
Rue à sens unique, deuxième édition
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Voici un ouvrage d'un genre nouveau, dans lequel Walter Benjamin pratique le collage à la manière de ces amoureux des télescopages poétiques que furent Dada et les surréalistes. 'Rue à sens unique' se compose de notes autobiographiques, de souvenirs d'enfance, d'aphorismes, de scènes de la vie urbaine, de considérations acérées sur l'état du monde, et de l'Allemagne en particulier, mais aussi de réflexions sur l'écriture elle-même, sur la graphologie.
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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(...)
Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings
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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. Benjamin 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.
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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 on Brecht's epic theater. "Illuminations" also includes his penetrating study "The Work of Art in the Age of(...)
Illuminations: essays and reflections
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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 on Brecht's epic theater. "Illuminations" also includes his penetrating study "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his theses on the philosophy of history. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in a dark historical era.
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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. From the Penguin Great Ideas series.
The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
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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. From the Penguin Great Ideas series.
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Les fleurs américaines
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Réalisée avec le Museum of American Art (MoAA), Berlin et le Salon de Fleurus, New York, l'exposition Les fleurs américaines présentée au Frac Île-de-France / Le Plateau racontait, par le biais de copies anonymes, les origines de l'écriture du récit connu sous le nom d'histoire de l'art moderne, pour questionner les critères d'authenticité, d'originalité et d'unicité des(...)
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Les fleurs américaines
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Réalisée avec le Museum of American Art (MoAA), Berlin et le Salon de Fleurus, New York, l'exposition Les fleurs américaines présentée au Frac Île-de-France / Le Plateau racontait, par le biais de copies anonymes, les origines de l'écriture du récit connu sous le nom d'histoire de l'art moderne, pour questionner les critères d'authenticité, d'originalité et d'unicité des œuvres et des artistes qui régissent toujours le monde de l'art aujourd'hui. Premier ouvrage en français consacré aux activités du MoAA et du Salon de Fleurus, ce catalogue revient sur les différentes parties de l'exposition présentée au Plateau et en prolonge les enjeux à travers un ensemble de sources iconographiques variées et de textes empruntant différents registres.
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On photography
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Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay A Short History of Photography is a landmark in the understanding and criticism of the medium, offering surprising new takes on such photographic pioneers as David Octavius Hill and Nicéphore Niépce and their aesthetic and technical achievements. On Photography presents a new translation of that essay along with a number of other(...)
On photography
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Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay A Short History of Photography is a landmark in the understanding and criticism of the medium, offering surprising new takes on such photographic pioneers as David Octavius Hill and Nicéphore Niépce and their aesthetic and technical achievements. On Photography presents a new translation of that essay along with a number of other writings by Benjamin, some of them presented in English for the first time. Translator and editor Esther Leslie sets Benjamin’s work in context with prefaces to each piece and contributes a substantial introduction that considers Benjamin’s engagement with photography in all its forms, including early commercial studio photography, the uses of photography in science, and much more
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