One-way street and other writings / Walter Benjamin ; translated by J.A. Underwood with an introduction by Amit Chaudhuri.

Main entry:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Title & Author:

One-way street and other writings / Walter Benjamin ; translated by J.A. Underwood with an introduction by Amit Chaudhuri.

Publication:

Description:

xiv, 278 pages ; 20 cm

Notes:
"Penguin modern classics"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
One-way street -- On language as such and on the language of man -- Fate and character -- Critique of violence -- Theologico-political fragment -- The destructive character -- On the mimetic faculty -- Naples -- Moscow -- Marseilles -- Hashish in Marseilles -- Surrealism -- A small history of photography -- Karl Kraus -- A Berlin chronicle -- Edward Fuch, collector and historian.
Translated from the German.

Summary:

"Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including 'One-Way Street', his dreamlike, aphoristic observations of urban life in Weimar Germany; 'Unpacking My Library', a delightful meditation on book-collecting; the confessional 'Hashish in Marseille'; and 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', his seminal essay on how technology changes the way we appreciate art. Also including writings on subjects ranging from Proust to Kafka, violence to surrealism, this is the essential volume on one of the most prescient critical voices of the modern age."--Publisher description.

ISBN:

9780141189475 (pbk.)
0141189479 (pbk.)

Subject:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Translations into English.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Form/genre:

Translations.

Added entries:

Chaudhuri, Amit, 1962-

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Location: Library main 277928
Call No.: BIB 213055
Status: Available

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