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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 — 24,109 ratings — published 1936
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 12,358 ratings — published 1955
One Way Street And Other Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,178 ratings — published 1928
The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 580 ratings — published 1969
The Arcades Project (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 3,050 ratings — published 1982
The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 1,157 ratings — published 1989
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 2,548 ratings — published 1978
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 178 ratings — published 2014
The Origin of German Tragic Drama (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 537 ratings — published 1928
On Hashish (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 535 ratings — published 1972
Understanding Brecht (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 183 ratings — published 1966
Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 252 ratings — published 1981
Berlin Childhood around 1900 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,742 ratings — published 1950
The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 629 ratings — published 2016
Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's "On the Concept of History" (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 385 ratings — published 2001
The Archive (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 181 ratings — published 2007
O Anjo da História (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 53 ratings — published 2012
On the Critique of Violence (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.01 — 394 ratings — published 1921
Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,226 ratings — published 2018
Moscow Diary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 477 ratings — published 1980
Early Writings (1910–1917)
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avg rating 3.90 — 20 ratings — published 2011
The Task of the Translator (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 118 ratings — published 1923
Walter Benjamin Reimagined: A Graphic Translation of Poetry, Prose, Aphorisms, and Dreams (Mit Press)
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avg rating 3.91 — 34 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 3.83 — 24 ratings — published 1986
The "Berlin Chronicle" Notices (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 26 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 3.95 — 138 ratings — published 2013
Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 13 ratings — published 2002
Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Collecting (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 357 ratings — published 1931
El concepto de crítica de arte en el Romanticismo alemán (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 91 ratings — published 1973
Introducing Walter Benjamin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.40 — 203 ratings — published 1994
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,402 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 — 96 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 — 149 ratings — published 2003
Sueños (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.82 — 68 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 4.32 — 138 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 3.73 — 153 ratings — published 2019
Emily Jacir & Susan Buck-Morss: 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 004 (100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series (13))
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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 4.45 — 47 ratings — published 2023
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,524 ratings — published 2018
Œuvres, I (Pocket Book)
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avg rating 4.18 — 17 ratings — published
Postanarchism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 83 ratings — published
“With the advent of cloning, this kind of thing is occurring not just at the level of messages but also in terms of individuals. Indeed, this is exactly what happens to the body when it is conceived of as nothing more than a message, nothing more than computer fodder. In such circumstances there is no obstacle in the way of a mass reproduction of the body exactly comparable to the mass reproduction of industrial objects and mass-media images described by Benjamin. Thus reproduction precedes production, and the genetic model of the body precedes all possible bodies. An exploding technology is what presides over this reversal - that technology which Benjamin was already able to describe, in its ultimate consequences, as a total medium; but Benjamin was writing in the industrial era: by then technology itself was a gigantic prosthesis governing the generation of identical objects and images which there was no longer any way of distinguishing from one another, but it was as yet impossible to foresee the technological sophistication of our own era, which has made it possible to generate identical beings, without any means of returning to an original. The prostheses of the industrial era were still external, exotechnical, whereas those we know now are ramified and internalized -esotechnical. Ours is the age of soft technologies, the age of genetic and mental software.”
― The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
― The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
“C’è un quadro di Klee che s’intitola Angelus Novus. Vi si trova un angelo che sembra in atto di allontanarsi da qualcosa su cui fissa lo sguardo. Ha gli occhi spalancati, la bocca aperta, le ali distese. L'angelo della storia deve avere questo aspetto. Ha il viso rivolto al passato.
Dove ci appare una catena di eventi, egli vede una sola catastrofe, che accumula senza tregua rovine su rovine e le rovescia ai suoi piedi. Egli vorrebbe ben trattenersi, destare i morti e ricomporre l’infranto. Ma una tempesta spira dal paradiso, che si è impigliata nelle sue ali, ed è così forte che egli non può più chiuderle.
Questa tempesta lo spinge irresistibilmente nel futuro, a cui volge le spalle, mentre il cumulo delle rovine sale davanti a lui al cielo. Ciò che chiamiamo il progresso, è questa tempesta.”
― Angelus Novus. Saggi e frammenti
Dove ci appare una catena di eventi, egli vede una sola catastrofe, che accumula senza tregua rovine su rovine e le rovescia ai suoi piedi. Egli vorrebbe ben trattenersi, destare i morti e ricomporre l’infranto. Ma una tempesta spira dal paradiso, che si è impigliata nelle sue ali, ed è così forte che egli non può più chiuderle.
Questa tempesta lo spinge irresistibilmente nel futuro, a cui volge le spalle, mentre il cumulo delle rovine sale davanti a lui al cielo. Ciò che chiamiamo il progresso, è questa tempesta.”
― Angelus Novus. Saggi e frammenti
