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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 12,643 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 — 25,040 ratings — published 1936
One Way Street And Other Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,308 ratings — published 1928
The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 586 ratings — published 1969
The Arcades Project (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 3,105 ratings — published 1982
The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,172 ratings — published 1989
The Origin of German Tragic Drama (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 559 ratings — published 1928
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 2,568 ratings — published 1978
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 186 ratings — published 2014
Understanding Brecht (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 194 ratings — published 1966
Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 260 ratings — published 1981
Berlin Childhood around 1900 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,870 ratings — published 1950
Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's "On the Concept of History" (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 443 ratings — published 2001
On Hashish (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 547 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 4.50 — 56 ratings — published 2012
The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 674 ratings — published 2016
Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,385 ratings — published 2018
Moscow Diary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 503 ratings — published 1980
Early Writings (1910–1917)
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avg rating 3.90 — 20 ratings — published 2011
The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 142 ratings — published 1977
On the Concept of History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,003 ratings — published 1940
Walter Benjamin Reimagined: A Graphic Translation of Poetry, Prose, Aphorisms, and Dreams (Mit Press)
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avg rating 3.85 — 33 ratings — published
A Modernidade (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 18 ratings — published
Sonnets: By Walter Benjamin (PUBLICATION STU)
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avg rating 3.81 — 26 ratings — published 1986
On the Critique of Violence (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.02 — 441 ratings — published 1921
The "Berlin Chronicle" Notices (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 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 3.90 — 151 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 — 397 ratings — published 1931
El concepto de crítica de arte en el Romanticismo alemán (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 100 ratings — published 1973
Introducing Walter Benjamin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.41 — 211 ratings — published 1994
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,468 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)
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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 3.83 — 98 ratings — published 2001
The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin 1910-1940 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 58 ratings — published 1978
Selected Writings, Volume 4: 1938–1940 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.55 — 150 ratings — published 2003
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 2,624 ratings — published 1970
Verwantschap in Extremen: Politieke Theologie Bij Walter Benjamin en Carl Schmitt (Dutch Edition)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008
Walter Benjamin (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 1991
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 6,315 ratings — published 1989
Walter Benjamin: A Biography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.09 — 47 ratings — published 1996
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 — 77 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
El pasajero Walter Benjamin (Igitur / Narrativa)
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avg rating 3.16 — 19 ratings — published 1988
“His (Benjamin's) dialectical image, like the stereoscopic image, is not part of the phenomenal world, but an image that is activated by present readers gazing upon the past. Again, it is not something that is directly perceptible (not reproducible), but only emerges in the imaginative interaction between reader and text.”
― Photography and the Optical Unconscious
― Photography and the Optical Unconscious
“The tendency to approach the question of creation in such all-or-nothing terms is, for example, less pronounced in the Jewish tradition. Walter Benjamin’s commentary on the book of Genesis, as set forth in his essay “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man” (in Early Writings: 1910–1917, trans. H. Eiland [Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011], 251–269), provides a summary of an alternative view. It is helpful to see Benjamin’s alternative reading of creation as involving six moments corresponding to the following six sorts of remarks to be found in that essay:
(1) In individual acts of creation . . . only the “Let there be” appears. (259)
(2) With the creative omnipotence of language this act begins. . . . In God, name is creative because it is word. . . . (259)
(3) The second version of the Creation story, which tells of the breathing of God’s
breath into man, also reports that man was made from earth. In the whole story of the Creation, this is the only reference to a material in which the Creator expresses his will, which is doubtless otherwise thought of as immediately creative. (258)
(4) In this second story of the Creation, the making of man did not come about through the word (God spoke and it was so), but this man who was not created from the word is now endowed with the gift of language, and he is elevated above nature. . . . (258) God did not create man from the word, and he did not name him. (259)
(5) God’s creation is completed when things receive their names from man—this man from whom, in the name, language alone speaks. . . . (255) Language is therefore that which creates and that which completes; it is word and name. (259)
(6) The absolute relation of name to knowledge exists only in God; only there is the name, because it is inwardly identical with the creative word, the pure medium of knowledge. This means that God made things knowable in their names. Man, however, names them according to knowledge.”
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(1) In individual acts of creation . . . only the “Let there be” appears. (259)
(2) With the creative omnipotence of language this act begins. . . . In God, name is creative because it is word. . . . (259)
(3) The second version of the Creation story, which tells of the breathing of God’s
breath into man, also reports that man was made from earth. In the whole story of the Creation, this is the only reference to a material in which the Creator expresses his will, which is doubtless otherwise thought of as immediately creative. (258)
(4) In this second story of the Creation, the making of man did not come about through the word (God spoke and it was so), but this man who was not created from the word is now endowed with the gift of language, and he is elevated above nature. . . . (258) God did not create man from the word, and he did not name him. (259)
(5) God’s creation is completed when things receive their names from man—this man from whom, in the name, language alone speaks. . . . (255) Language is therefore that which creates and that which completes; it is word and name. (259)
(6) The absolute relation of name to knowledge exists only in God; only there is the name, because it is inwardly identical with the creative word, the pure medium of knowledge. This means that God made things knowable in their names. Man, however, names them according to knowledge.”
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