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One-way street
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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(...)
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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(...)
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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, writing in a vein that anticipates later masterpieces such as “On the Concept of History” and The Arcades Project. Composed of sixty short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and theme, One-Way Street evokes a dense cityscape of shops, cafes, and apartments, alive with the hubbub of social interactions and papered over with public inscriptions of all kinds: advertisements, signs, posters, slogans. Benjamin avoids all semblance of linear narrative, enticing readers with a seemingly random sequence of aphorisms, reminiscences, jokes, off-the-cuff observations, dreamlike fantasias, serious philosophical inquiries, apparently unserious philosophical parodies, and trenchant political commentaries. Providing remarkable insight into the occluded meanings of everyday things, Benjamin time and again proves himself the unrivalled interpreter of what he called “the soul of the commodity.” Despite the diversity of its individual sections, Benjamin’s text is far from formless. Drawing on the avant-garde aesthetics of Dada, Constructivism, and Surrealism, its unusual construction implies a practice of reading that cannot be reduced to simple formulas. Still refractory, still radical, One-Way Street is a work in perpetual progress.
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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, writing in a vein that anticipates later masterpieces such as “On the Concept of History” and The Arcades Project. Composed of sixty short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and theme, One-Way Street evokes a dense cityscape of shops, cafes, and apartments, alive with the hubbub of social interactions and papered over with public inscriptions of all kinds: advertisements, signs, posters, slogans. Benjamin avoids all semblance of linear narrative, enticing readers with a seemingly random sequence of aphorisms, reminiscences, jokes, off-the-cuff observations, dreamlike fantasias, serious philosophical inquiries, apparently unserious philosophical parodies, and trenchant political commentaries. Providing remarkable insight into the occluded meanings of everyday things, Benjamin time and again proves himself the unrivalled interpreter of what he called “the soul of the commodity.” Despite the diversity of its individual sections, Benjamin’s text is far from formless. Drawing on the avant-garde aesthetics of Dada, Constructivism, and Surrealism, its unusual construction implies a practice of reading that cannot be reduced to simple formulas. Still refractory, still radical, One-Way Street is a work in perpetual progress.
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May 2016
May 2016
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Critical Theory
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Photography : history of an art / by Jean-Luc Daval ; [translated from the French by R.F.M. Dexter].
Photography : history of an art / by Jean-Luc Daval ; [translated from the French by R.F.M. Dexter].
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269 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 35 cm
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New York : Skira/Rizzoli, 1982.
New York : Skira/Rizzoli, 1982.
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Photography : history of an art / by Jean-Luc Daval ; [translated from the French by R.F.M. Dexter].
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269 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 35 cm
Photography : history of an art / by Jean-Luc Daval ; [translated from the French by R.F.M. Dexter].
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New York : Skira/Rizzoli, 1982.
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Benjamin for architects
Benjamin for architects
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Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy. Examining Benjamin’s contributions to cultural criticism in relation to the works of Max Ernst, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier and Sigfried Giedion, this book also situates Benjamin’s(...)
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Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy. Examining Benjamin’s contributions to cultural criticism in relation to the works of Max Ernst, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier and Sigfried Giedion, this book also situates Benjamin’s(...)
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Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy. Examining Benjamin’s contributions to cultural criticism in relation to the works of Max Ernst, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier and Sigfried Giedion, this book also situates Benjamin’s work within more recent developments in architecture and urbanism. This is a concise account of the relevance of Walter Benjamin’s writings to architects, locating Benjamin’s critical work within the context of contemporary architecture and urbanism.
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Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy. Examining Benjamin’s contributions to cultural criticism in relation to the works of Max Ernst, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier and Sigfried Giedion, this book also situates Benjamin’s work within more recent developments in architecture and urbanism. This is a concise account of the relevance of Walter Benjamin’s writings to architects, locating Benjamin’s critical work within the context of contemporary architecture and urbanism.
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October 2010
October 2010
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Architectural Theory
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2 volumes (xiv, 1365 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1991., ©1991
Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1991., ©1991
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Europäische Barock-Rezeption / in Verbindung mit Ferdinand van Ingen, Wilhelm Kühlmann, Wolfgang Weiss herausgegeben von Klaus Garber.
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Europäische Barock-Rezeption / in Verbindung mit Ferdinand van Ingen, Wilhelm Kühlmann, Wolfgang Weiss herausgegeben von Klaus Garber.
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Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1991., ©1991
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xxi, 582 pages ; 23 cm
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Sharon, CT : Design Books, 2023., ©2023
Sharon, CT : Design Books, 2023., ©2023
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Historic preservation theory : an anthology : readings from the 18th to the 21st century / edited by Jorge Otero-Pailos.
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xxi, 582 pages ; 23 cm
Historic preservation theory : an anthology : readings from the 18th to the 21st century / edited by Jorge Otero-Pailos.
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Sharon, CT : Design Books, 2023., ©2023
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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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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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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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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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May 2008
May 2008
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Critical Theory
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Walking in Berlin
Walking in Berlin
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In 'Walking in Berlin', Hessel captures the rhythm of Weimar-era Berlin, recording the seismic shifts in German culture. Nearly all of the essays take the form of a walk or outing, focusing on either a theme or part of the city, and many end at a theater, cinema, or club. 'Walking in Berlin' was a central model for Benjamin’s Arcades Project and remains a classic of(...)
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In 'Walking in Berlin', Hessel captures the rhythm of Weimar-era Berlin, recording the seismic shifts in German culture. Nearly all of the essays take the form of a walk or outing, focusing on either a theme or part of the city, and many end at a theater, cinema, or club. 'Walking in Berlin' was a central model for Benjamin’s Arcades Project and remains a classic of(...)
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In 'Walking in Berlin', Hessel captures the rhythm of Weimar-era Berlin, recording the seismic shifts in German culture. Nearly all of the essays take the form of a walk or outing, focusing on either a theme or part of the city, and many end at a theater, cinema, or club. 'Walking in Berlin' was a central model for Benjamin’s Arcades Project and remains a classic of “walking literature” that ranges from Surrealist perambulation to Situationist “psychogeography.” This MIT Press edition includes the complete text in translation as well as Benjamin’s essay on 'Walking in Berlin', originally written as a review of the book’s original edition.
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In 'Walking in Berlin', Hessel captures the rhythm of Weimar-era Berlin, recording the seismic shifts in German culture. Nearly all of the essays take the form of a walk or outing, focusing on either a theme or part of the city, and many end at a theater, cinema, or club. 'Walking in Berlin' was a central model for Benjamin’s Arcades Project and remains a classic of “walking literature” that ranges from Surrealist perambulation to Situationist “psychogeography.” This MIT Press edition includes the complete text in translation as well as Benjamin’s essay on 'Walking in Berlin', originally written as a review of the book’s original edition.
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May 2017
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294 p. ; 23 cm.
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London, Ont. : Althouse Press, 2003.
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The best teacher I ever had : personal reports from highly productive scholars / edited by Alex C. Michalos.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
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Philosophy in cultural theory / Peter Osborne.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
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Sur l'art et la photographie
Sur l'art et la photographie
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Trois essais du célèbre philosophe sont regroupés dans ce livre : L'oeuvre d'art à l'époque de sa reproductibilité technique (1936), "Du nouveau sur les fleurs" (1928) ainsi que "Peinture et photographie" (1936).
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Trois essais du célèbre philosophe sont regroupés dans ce livre : L'oeuvre d'art à l'époque de sa reproductibilité technique (1936), "Du nouveau sur les fleurs" (1928) ainsi que "Peinture et photographie" (1936).
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Trois essais du célèbre philosophe sont regroupés dans ce livre : L'oeuvre d'art à l'époque de sa reproductibilité technique (1936), "Du nouveau sur les fleurs" (1928) ainsi que "Peinture et photographie" (1936).
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Trois essais du célèbre philosophe sont regroupés dans ce livre : L'oeuvre d'art à l'époque de sa reproductibilité technique (1936), "Du nouveau sur les fleurs" (1928) ainsi que "Peinture et photographie" (1936).
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May 1997, Paris
May 1997, Paris
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Theory of Photography
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