Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2: Part 2 1931-1934

Name: Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2: Part 2 1931-1934
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ISBN: 9780674017467

ISBN-10: 0674017463

ISBN-13: 9780674017467

Edition: 1999

Authors: Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith, Howard Eiland

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Volume 2 of the "Selected Writings is now available in paperback in two parts. Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays, "Franz Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer," the extended autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle," and extended discussions of the history of photography and the social situation of the French writer, previously untranslated shorter pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, and on such influential figures as Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 6/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.37" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

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

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

Howard Eiland teaches literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.



The Destructive Character, 1931


In Parallel with My Actual Diary


Criticism as the Fundamental Discipline of Literary History


Critique of the New Objectivity


We Ought to Reexamine the Link between Teaching and Research


Hofmannsthal and Aleco Dossena


Left-Wing Melancholy


Theological Criticism


Karl Kraus


Literary History and the Study of Literature


German Letters


May-June 1931


Unpacking My Library


Franz Kafka: Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer


Diary from August 7, 1931, to the Day of My Death


Little History of Photography


Paul Valery


The Lisbon Earthquake


The Destructive Character


Reflections on Radio


Mickey Mouse


In Almost Every Example We Have of Materialist Literary History


The Task of the Critic


Ibizan Sequence, 1932


Experience


On Ships, Mine Shafts, and Crucifixes in Bottles


On the Trail of Old Letters


A Family Drama in the Epic Theater


The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Tay


Privileged Thinking


Excavation and Memory


Oedipus, or Rational Myth


On Proverbs


Theater and Radio


Ibizan Sequence


Berlin Chronicle


Spain, 1932


Light from Obscurantists


The Handkerchief


In the Sun


The Rigorous Study of Art


Hashish in Marseilles


The Eve of Departure


On Astrology


"Try to Ensure That Everything in Life Has a Consequence"


Notes (IV)


Thought Figures, 1933


The Lamp


Doctrine of the Similar


Short Shadows (II)


Kierkegaard


Stefan George in Retrospect


Agesilaus Santander (First Version)


Agesilaus Santander (Second Version)


Antitheses Concerning Word and Name


On the Mimetic Faculty


Thought Figures


Little Tricks of the Trade


Experience and Poverty


The Author as Producer, 1934


Once Is as Good as Never


The Newspaper


Venal but Unusable


The Present Social Situation of the French Writer


The Author as Producer


Notes from Svendborg, Summer 1934


Hitler's Diminished Masculinity


Franz Kafka


A Note on the Texts


Chronology, 1927-1934


Index