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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 12,603 ratings — published 1955
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 24,881 ratings — published 1936
One Way Street And Other Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,286 ratings — published 1928
The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 587 ratings — published 1969
The Arcades Project (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 3,097 ratings — published 1982
The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,169 ratings — published 1989
The Origin of German Tragic Drama (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 558 ratings — published 1928
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 2,565 ratings — published 1978
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 184 ratings — published 2014
Understanding Brecht (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 193 ratings — published 1966
Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 259 ratings — published 1981
Berlin Childhood around 1900 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 1,845 ratings — published 1950
Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's "On the Concept of History" (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 438 ratings — published 2001
On Hashish (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 544 ratings — published 1972
The Archive (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 180 ratings — published 2007
O Anjo da História (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 55 ratings — published 2012
The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 668 ratings — published 2016
Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as walter-benjamin)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,361 ratings — published 2018
Moscow Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as walter-benjamin)
avg rating 3.96 — 497 ratings — published 1980
Early Writings (1910–1917)
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avg rating 3.90 — 20 ratings — published 2011
Walter Benjamin Reimagined: A Graphic Translation of Poetry, Prose, Aphorisms, and Dreams (Mit Press)
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avg rating 3.91 — 33 ratings — published
A Modernidade (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 18 ratings — published
Sonnets: By Walter Benjamin (PUBLICATION STU)
by (shelved 2 times as walter-benjamin)
avg rating 3.81 — 26 ratings — published 1986
On the Critique of Violence (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.01 — 437 ratings — published 1921
The "Berlin Chronicle" Notices (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 27 ratings — published 1988
Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption (Volume 7)
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avg rating 3.76 — 38 ratings — published 1982
Radio Benjamin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 147 ratings — published 2013
Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations (Key Contemporary Thinkers)
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avg rating 4.07 — 14 ratings — published 2002
Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Collecting (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 395 ratings — published 1931
El concepto de crítica de arte en el Romanticismo alemán (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 98 ratings — published 1973
Introducing Walter Benjamin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.41 — 208 ratings — published 1994
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,459 ratings — published 1999
Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 2004
Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin and the Eschatology of Sovereignty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as walter-benjamin)
avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published 2011
Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 12 ratings — published 2004
The Angel Of History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 97 ratings — published 2001
The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin 1910-1940 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 57 ratings — published 1978
Selected Writings, Volume 4: 1938–1940 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.55 — 150 ratings — published 2003
Aura e choc. Saggi sulla teoria dei media (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 43 ratings — published 1978
Ler o Que Não Foi Escrito: Conversa inacabada entre Walter Benjamin e Paul Celan (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 2005
Sueños (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.84 — 74 ratings — published 2008
Villa Verde oder das Hotel in Sanremo: Das italienische Exil der Familie Benjamin (German Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 141 ratings — published 1977
El pasajero Walter Benjamin (Igitur / Narrativa)
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avg rating 3.16 — 19 ratings — published 1988
فرشتۀ تاریخ (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 168 ratings — published 2019
Emily Jacir & Susan Buck-Morss: 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 004 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 2011
Écrits français (Pocket Book)
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avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 1991
Seeing <―> Making: Room for Thought (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 54 ratings — published 2023
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,617 ratings — published 2018
Œuvres, I (Pocket Book)
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avg rating 4.18 — 17 ratings — published
“Only when poetry is read can it become a hobby, a habit, a daily necessity. Only so can it become ‘literature’, enjoyment of which is no longer confined to the solemn moments of life or to special festivities, but which may be drawn upon as desired merely to pass the time of day. Poetry thus loses the last remnant of its numinous character and becomes mere ‘fiction’, mere invention which can arouse aesthetic interest without claiming any element of conviction”
― The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
― The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
“The uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable from its being imbedded in the fabric of tradition. This tradition itself is thoroughly alive and extremely changeable. An ancient statue of Venus, for example, stood in a different traditional context with
the Greeks, who made it an object of veneration, than with the clerics of the Middle Ages, who viewed it as an ominous idol. Both of them, however, were equally confronted with its uniqueness, that is, its aura. Originally the contextual integration of art in tradition found its expression in the cult. We know that the earliest art works originated in the service of a ritual—first the
magical, then the religious kind.”
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
the Greeks, who made it an object of veneration, than with the clerics of the Middle Ages, who viewed it as an ominous idol. Both of them, however, were equally confronted with its uniqueness, that is, its aura. Originally the contextual integration of art in tradition found its expression in the cult. We know that the earliest art works originated in the service of a ritual—first the
magical, then the religious kind.”
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
