![]() ![]() Leon Wieseltier’s preface explores Benjamin’s continued relevance for our times. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin’s life in a dark historical era. Hannah Arendt, Introduction to Walter Benjamin’s Illuminations Hannah Arendt was a capacious thinker. ![]() Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his theses on the philosophy of history. In her introduction to Illuminations, Hannah Arendt writes. 13 1969 by Walter Benjamin (Author) 168 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 9.21 1 Used from 9.21 Paperback 57.58 11 Used from 15.54 6 New from 52. Benjaminexcerpt.jpg Download image (143. Hannah Arendt (Boston: Mariner Books, 2019) 1. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity his studies on Baudelaire and Proust and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater. Walter Benjamin Illuminations: Essays and Reflections Paperback Jan. Source: Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library, in Illuminations, ed. Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. Edited and with an introduction by Hannah Arendt ![]()
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