Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 4: 1938-1940

Name: Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 4: 1938-1940
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ISBN: 9780674022294

ISBN-10: 0674022297

ISBN-13: 9780674022294

Edition: 2003

Authors: Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland, Michael W. Jennings, Edmund Jephcott

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"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to flee the Nazis. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings in the final years of his life, the "victories wrested" in this period nonetheless constitute some of the most remarkable twentieth-century analyses of the emergence of modern society. The essays on Charles Baudelaire are the distillation of a lifetime of thinking about the nature of modernity. They record the crisis of meaning experienced by a…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.37" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis.

Howard Eiland teaches literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Michael W. Jennings is Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages at Princeton University.



Fruruits of Exile, 1938 (PART 2)



The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire



Blanqui



The Study Begins with Some Reflections on the Influence of Les Fleurs du mal



Exchange with Theodor W. Adorno on ""The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire""



Review of Reneacute;ville's Expeacute;rience poeacute;tique



Review of Freund's Photographie en France au dix-neuviegrave;me siegrave;cle



Reviw of Francesco's Macht des Charlatans



A chronicle of Germany's Unemployed



A Novel