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In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings is now available in paperback in two parts.
In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust," as well as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection of his wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers.
Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays, "Franz Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer," the extended autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle," and extended discussions of the history of photography and the social situation of the French writer, previously untranslated shorter pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, and on such influential figures as Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.
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Beware of the translation.......2006-05-14
Harvard is doing non-German speakers a great service by compiling all of these essential essays in chronological order. I am baffled, however, that some of the translations are so inaccurate. Non-German readers should know that there are egregious errors in some of these translations, especially those by Rodney Livingstone. I have compared one of his translations closely with the original German and was shocked to find so many inaccuracies. In one sentence Livingstone translates into English the *exact* opposite of what Benjamin actually writes. He doesn't just get the wrong word (as he does elsewhere); he composes a sentence that is the precise negation of what Benjamin wrote. This is very worrisome and does not bode well for the rest of the volume. I have not closely compared the majority of the volume to the original-- I don't have the time for that. But from the little evidence I found in just a few hours it looks bad indeed.
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, part 2, 1931-1934 (Walter Benjamin)
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In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings is now available in paperback in two parts.
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Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays, "Franz Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer," the extended autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle," and extended discussions of the history of photography and the social situation of the French writer, previously untranslated shorter pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, and on such influential figures as Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.
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Hans Haacke: For Real
Hans Haacke ,
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When Hans Haacke was awarded the Peter Weiss Prize in 2004, he called Weiss' writings "courageous interventions, driven by moral outrage." Since the early 1960s Haacke himself has been a socially engaged artist. Living in New York since 1965 (born Cologne, 1936), he has participated in the public debate through his sculptures, installations, paintings and photographs, as well as by his writings and teaching. In 1971, several works for a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum were deemed "inappropriate" by the Museum's director and he cancelled the show (one was an expose of the real estate empire of a New York slumlord. At the 1993 Venice Biennial, the artist broke up the marble floor the Nazis had installed in the German pavilion and he displayed the replica of a 1-DM coin minted in the year of German reunification above the entrance. His 2000 installation DER BEVOLKERUNG (To the population), a work in progress in the German Parliament building in Berlin, also makes reference to the Nazi past but, in addition, addresses contemporary issues of citizenship and the integration of foreign-born residents. Recently, several works have paid critical attention to the Iraq war. This publication was produced for a 2006 retrospective exhibition at the Hamburg Deichtorhallen and the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin. It offers a survey of Haacke's works from 1959 to the present. It includes a selection of his writings and essays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Rosalyn Deutsche and Walter Grasskamp.
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Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy: In Early Works of Walter Benjamin
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Through reading the early work of Walter Benjamin--up to and including the Trauerspiel, author Monad Rrenban elicits a cohesive conception of the wild, inforgettable form, philosophy, as inherent in everything. This book, distinct in its analysis and depth of analysis, elaborates the wild, unforgettable form--philosophy in relation to language, the discipline and the practice of philosophy, criticism, and the politics of death.
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The Disenchantment of Art: The Philosophy of Walter Benjamin
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Fifty years after his death, Walter Benjamin remains one of the great cultural critics of this century. Despite his renown, however, Benjamin's philosophical ideas remain elusive--often considered a disaggregated set of thoughts not meant to cohere. This book provides a more systematic perspective on Benjamin, laying claim to his status as a philosopher and situating his work in the context of its time. Exploring Benjamin's theory of language, spoken and nonspoken, Rainer Rochlitz shows how Benjamin reconceptualized traditional ideas of language, art, and history. Offering an expansive assessment of a unique twentieth-century thinker, this volume provides an indispensable guide for readers of Benjamin's recently released collected works.
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Walter Benjamin and Art
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Walter Benjamin's most famous and influential essay remains The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art is the first book to provide a broad and dedicated analysis of this canonical work and its effect upon core contemporary concerns in the visual arts, aesthetics and the history of philosophy.
The book is structured around three distinct areas: the extension of Benjamin's work; the question of historical connection; the importance of the essay in the development of criticism of both the visual arts and literature. Contributors to the volume include major Benjamin commentators, whose work has very much defined the reception of the essay, and leading philosophers, historians and aesthetician, whose approaches open up new areas of interest and relevance.
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The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art
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Walter Benjamin for Children: An Essay on his Radio Years
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In light of the legendary difficulty of Walter Benjamin's
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1933 the great critic and cultural theorist wrote—and
broadcast—numerous scripts, on the order of fireside
chats, for children. Invited to speak on whatever subject he
considered appropriate, Benjamin talked to the children of
Frankfurt and Berlin about the destruction of Pompeii, an
earthquake in Lisbon, and a railroad disaster at the Firth of
Tay. He spoke about bootlegging and swindling, cataclysm and
suicide, Faust and Cagliostro. In this first sustained
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In Walter Benjamin for Children, readers will
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the flooding of the Mississippi informed by the argument of
"The Task of the Translator;" a discussion of scams
in stamp-collecting that turns into "The Work of Art in
the Age of Mechanical Reproduction;" a tale of
bootlegging in the American South that converges with the
best of Benjamin's essays on fiction. Mehlman superimposes a
dual series of texts dealing with catastrophe, on the one
hand, and fraud, on the other, that resonate with the false-
messianic theology of Sabbatianism as it came to focus the
attention and enthusiasm of Benjamin's friend Gershom Scholem
during the same years. The radio scripts for children, that
is, offer an unexpected byway, on the eve of the apocalypse,
into Benjamin's messianic preoccupations.
A child's garden of deconstruction, these twenty-minute
talks—from the perspective of childhood, before an
invisible audience, on whatever happened to cross the
critic's mind—are also by their very nature the closest
we may ever come to a transcript of a psychoanalysis of
Walter Benjamin. Particularly alive to that circumstance,
Mehlman explores the themes of the radio broadcasts and
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This lucid analysis brings to light some of the least
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DE-, DIS-, EX-, Volume 3, The Optic of Walter Benjamin (DE-, DIS-, EX-)
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Walter Benjamin's revolutionary approach to telescoping the past through the present provides a new way of seeing the city, glass architecture, historiography, collecting, ethnography and a variety of other themes. Applying Benjamin's insights to their own disciplines are Mark Dion, Detlef Mertens, Sigrid Wiegel and Ester Leslie, among others. Edited by Alex Coles. Dimension: 6 x 8 ½ inches, 46 b&w reproductions.
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Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics: Rethinking Religion through the Arts
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Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics is an innovative attempt to reconceive the key concepts of religious studies through a reading with, and against, Walter Benjamin. Brent Plate deftly sifts through Benjamin's voluminous writings showing how his concepts of art, allegory, and experience undo traditional religious concepts such as myth, symbol, memory, narrative, creation, and redemption. Recasting religion as religious practice, as process and movement, Plate locates a Benjaminian materialist aesthetics, what the author calls an "allegorical aesthetics," in order to uncover sources and establish a new locus for the study of religion.
Placing the concept of an allegorical aesthetics into practice, Plate offers examinations of aesthetic productions such as Daniel Libeskind's architecture and Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades alongside religious developments such as the Hindu Bhakti movement and Jewish Kabbalistic thought.
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Tracing the journey of a humble wild species of the forest to its spread over the subcontinent, the author pieces together India's fascination with the mango and explores why the mango is more than a mere fruit to India. She talks about the appearance of the mango on the Indian landscape and how it permeated their literature, mythology, arts and craft. The second section of the book deals with the practical aspect of growing a mango tree - in an orchard or in a pot - caring for it and marketing it. This beautiful book includes color illustrations.
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American children, photographs from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art
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American Children. Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art
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American Children: Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
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American Children. Photographs from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art.
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