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  <title><![CDATA[Illuminations: Essays and Reflections]]></title>
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  <default_description>Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century.  &lt;i&gt;Illuminations &lt;/i&gt;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.  Also included are his penetrating study &quot;The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,&quot; an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and Benjamin's theses on the philosophy of history.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in dark times.  Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[The essays collected here are all good to excellent.  However, Harry Zohn's translations are appalling!  The piece on translation is garbled into nonsense, basically, and the less said about the rendering into English of the artwork essay the better.  Best to stick to the edition put out by Harvard ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4061561">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[if you make art, read this book. if you are a political person, read this book. if you are an emotional person, read this book. if you just like to space out and think about shit, read this book. walter benjamin is a total genius if not THE genius. nothing post-modern could exist in the way it does ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6082241">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Scary to read this now - relevant and haunting. Beautiful, dark prose. Brilliant and shadowy and mind-blowingly astute. Modern always in its observations and personal experience. His is the experience of all of us in a floating, unstable world. History and the present moment are the same - there is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4393791">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a valuable collection of essays and reflections by the German literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin. The collection is enhanced by the excellent introduction provided by Hannah Arendt. Of the ten essays in the collection by far the most famous is The Work of Art in the Age of Mec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43226961">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hannah Arendt put these together, the classic collection of his work that American readers are more likely to be familiar with. I recommend to anyone. He had such energy; there is an exuberant joy in his writing about arts, culture, and literature and it is a pleasure to feel oneself in his company ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59752280">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading Benjamin makes me realize how 98% of the conversations I have are a waste of time. His depth reaches far and his reading spreads vast.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Benjamin's writings on Proust, Kafka, Baudelaire and Leskov are really brilliant and engrossing.  I was especially taken with his history of the storyteller in relation to Leskov's stories, how the verbal communication that was the initial component of storytelling dissipated after the fragmenting o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55161807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could have gone nowhere without Walter Benjamin.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Benjamin's essays do not necessarily work within a field of philosophy that builds upon previous theories and drives towards a &quot;greater point&quot; but rather, they work more as conversations. He picks and pulls from various sources that may not seem to relate immediately but still work and ass...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47419280">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In 1940 Walter Benjamin committed suicide at the Franco-Spanish border fearing that he would be unable to escape the grasp of Hitler's regime. He left behind perhaps one of the finest collections of literary theory of his era, complete with lucidly brilliant essays on Kafka, Proust, Baudelaire, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34785426">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the two most widely read pieces from this collection are probably &quot;the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction&quot; and &quot;theses on the philosophy of history,&quot; both of which are, in my opinion, absolutely necessary works to scrutinize for any student of cultural studies, be ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15415120">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The essay, we say, reformed high school students all, is like a building. <br/><br/>First, we lay its foundations. Then, we join together its framework. When all is finally seamless, we paint it and furnish it. <br/><br/>As readers, then, we enter through a doorway, carefully designed to allow s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14616020">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Walter Benjamin, writing his greatest work while constantly evading Nazi Persecution for being a Jew, was one of the most influential and compassionate cultural critics and intellectual revolutionaries of the Twentieth Century.  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Illuminations" title=" Illuminations"> Illuminations</a> is a series of essays and reflections on some of his lit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6922044">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The bit about the angel of history is one of my favorite passages anywhere. A chilling epitaph for the first half of the 20th Century, and one of the enduring images for me of that maelstrom of modernism and destruction and acceleration. Lots of other great stuff in here too, but I can't remember mu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61474149">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Benjamin never ceases to impress, his critical approach and analysis is consistently one of the most orginal and compelling that I've come across. He examines the texts and the world around him with a sort of deft skill that you can't help but envy, always finding a fresh perspective from which to c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78159295">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Benjamin is not a literary critic inasmuch as he is not a poet.  He is a fused space that involves both the trace of an event and the hard-data that contains the trace.  Benjamin, in his short time was able to grapple with Fascism, showcase the power of Proust (who seems more likely to me as someone...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48694948">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[sangat-sangat inspiratif. Hampir tiap tahun selalu buka-buka lagi Benjamin untuk cari masukan. <br/>Zizek nantinya menulis bhw bila dugaan Benjamin dibunuh oleh agen2 Stalin itu benar maka inilah bukti bgmn teori2 tinggi bisa punya koneksi langsung pada aksi politik paling rendahan]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a compilation.  If you're a bibliophile, you should own this book just for the article, &quot;Unpacking My Library (A Talk About Book Collecting)&quot;.  I thought I was the only one that felt so passionate about books as an entity!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great collection of some of Benjamin's most influential essays, including &quot;The Storyteller,&quot; &quot;The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,&quot; and &quot;Theses on the Philosophy of History.&quot;]]></body>
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