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Voici un ouvrage d'un genre nouveau, dans lequel Walter Benjamin pratique le collage à la manière de ces amoureux des télescopages poétiques que furent Dada et les surréalistes. 'Rue à sens unique' se compose de notes autobiographiques, de souvenirs d'enfance, d'aphorismes, de scènes de la vie urbaine, de considérations acérées sur l'état du monde, et de l'Allemagne en(...)
Rue à sens unique, deuxième édition
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Voici un ouvrage d'un genre nouveau, dans lequel Walter Benjamin pratique le collage à la manière de ces amoureux des télescopages poétiques que furent Dada et les surréalistes. 'Rue à sens unique' se compose de notes autobiographiques, de souvenirs d'enfance, d'aphorismes, de scènes de la vie urbaine, de considérations acérées sur l'état du monde, et de l'Allemagne en particulier, mais aussi de réflexions sur l'écriture elle-même, sur la graphologie.
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One-way street
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One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature?by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most(...)
One-way street
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One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature?by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, writing in a vein that anticipates later masterpieces such as “On the Concept of History” and The Arcades Project. Composed of sixty short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and theme, One-Way Street evokes a dense cityscape of shops, cafes, and apartments, alive with the hubbub of social interactions and papered over with public inscriptions of all kinds: advertisements, signs, posters, slogans. Benjamin avoids all semblance of linear narrative, enticing readers with a seemingly random sequence of aphorisms, reminiscences, jokes, off-the-cuff observations, dreamlike fantasias, serious philosophical inquiries, apparently unserious philosophical parodies, and trenchant political commentaries. Providing remarkable insight into the occluded meanings of everyday things, Benjamin time and again proves himself the unrivalled interpreter of what he called “the soul of the commodity.” Despite the diversity of its individual sections, Benjamin’s text is far from formless. Drawing on the avant-garde aesthetics of Dada, Constructivism, and Surrealism, its unusual construction implies a practice of reading that cannot be reduced to simple formulas. Still refractory, still radical, One-Way Street is a work in perpetual progress.
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'The Storyteller' gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, 'One-Way Street' and 'The Arcades Project'. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms,(...)
The storyteller: tales out of loneliness
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'The Storyteller' gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, 'One-Way Street' and 'The Arcades Project'. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance of games, and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling and fortune-telling, and explore the themes that defined Benjamin. The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection are brought to life by the playful imagery of the modernist artist and Bauhaus figure Paul Klee.
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L��uvre d�art � l��poque de sa reproductibilit� technique annonce, d�s son titre, le tournant op�r� par la modernit� : Benjamin montre dans cet essai lumineux que l�av�nement de la photographie, puis du cin�ma, n�est pas l�apparition d�une simple technique nouvelle, mais qu�il bouleverse de fond en comble le statut de l��uvre(...)
L'oeuvre d'art � l'�poque de sa reproductibilit� technique
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L��uvre d�art � l��poque de sa reproductibilit� technique annonce, d�s son titre, le tournant op�r� par la modernit� : Benjamin montre dans cet essai lumineux que l�av�nement de la photographie, puis du cin�ma, n�est pas l�apparition d�une simple technique nouvelle, mais qu�il bouleverse de fond en comble le statut de l��uvre d�art, en lui �tant ce que Benjamin nomme son �aura�. Benjamin met au jour les cons�quences immenses de cette r�volution, bien au-del� de la sph�re artistique, dans tout le champ social et politique. Un texte fondamental, dont les �chos ne cessent de se prolonger dans les r�flexions les plus contemporaines. Traduit de l�allemand par Maurice de Gandillac.
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Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions. This collection, introduced by Susan Sontag, contains the most representative and illuminating selection of his work(...)
One-way street and other writings
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Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions. This collection, introduced by Susan Sontag, contains the most representative and illuminating selection of his work over a twenty-year period, and thus does full justice to the richness and the multi-dimensional nature of his thought. Included in these pages are aphorisms and townscapes, esoteric meditation and reminiscences of childhood, and reflections on language, psychology, aesthetics and politics.
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Les fleurs américaines
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Réalisée avec le Museum of American Art (MoAA), Berlin et le Salon de Fleurus, New York, l'exposition Les fleurs américaines présentée au Frac Île-de-France / Le Plateau racontait, par le biais de copies anonymes, les origines de l'écriture du récit connu sous le nom d'histoire de l'art moderne, pour questionner les critères d'authenticité, d'originalité et d'unicité des(...)
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Les fleurs américaines
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Réalisée avec le Museum of American Art (MoAA), Berlin et le Salon de Fleurus, New York, l'exposition Les fleurs américaines présentée au Frac Île-de-France / Le Plateau racontait, par le biais de copies anonymes, les origines de l'écriture du récit connu sous le nom d'histoire de l'art moderne, pour questionner les critères d'authenticité, d'originalité et d'unicité des œuvres et des artistes qui régissent toujours le monde de l'art aujourd'hui. Premier ouvrage en français consacré aux activités du MoAA et du Salon de Fleurus, ce catalogue revient sur les différentes parties de l'exposition présentée au Plateau et en prolonge les enjeux à travers un ensemble de sources iconographiques variées et de textes empruntant différents registres.
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On photography
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Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay A Short History of Photography is a landmark in the understanding and criticism of the medium, offering surprising new takes on such photographic pioneers as David Octavius Hill and Nicéphore Niépce and their aesthetic and technical achievements. On Photography presents a new translation of that essay along with a number of other(...)
On photography
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Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay A Short History of Photography is a landmark in the understanding and criticism of the medium, offering surprising new takes on such photographic pioneers as David Octavius Hill and Nicéphore Niépce and their aesthetic and technical achievements. On Photography presents a new translation of that essay along with a number of other writings by Benjamin, some of them presented in English for the first time. Translator and editor Esther Leslie sets Benjamin’s work in context with prefaces to each piece and contributes a substantial introduction that considers Benjamin’s engagement with photography in all its forms, including early commercial studio photography, the uses of photography in science, and much more
Theory of Photography
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The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, assortments of images, texts, and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas,(...)
Walter Benjamin's Archive: images, texts, signs
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The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, assortments of images, texts, and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas, and hopes, each of which was enthusiastically logged, systematized, and analyzed by their author. In this way, Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy. This publication leads readers to the heart of his intellectual world, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author.
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