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Reflections - Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Walter Benjamin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Deals with surrealism, Brecht, Berlin, Paris, Moscow, Marseilles, Naples, violence, fate, language, and character.
THE ARCHIVE by Esther Leslie (Translator); Ursula Marx (Editor); Gudrun Schwarz (Editor); Michael Schwarz (Editor); Erdmut Wizisla (Editor); Walter Benjamin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
$68.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Belknap Press Ser.
To great writers, Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labour their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, "The Arcades Project" (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin ...Show more
The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Cited by Georg Lukács as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin's study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally 'mourning play') is the most complete document of his literary and philosophical practice. Engaging with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German playwright ...Show more
The Storyteller: Essays by Walter Benjamin; Samuel Titan (Introduction by, Editor); Tess Lewis (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Walter Benjamin's "The Storyteller" is among the greatest and most widely read essays of this ever-suggestive but also enigmatic master thinker. Published in 1936 in an obscure Swiss review, "The Storyteller" was the product of at least a decade of ongoing reflection and composition. What might be calle ...Show more
The Storyteller: Tales Out of Loneliness by Walter Benjamin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is the first major collection of short stories from the legendary German-Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Benjamin is best known for his groundbreaking studies on culture and literature, including the collections Illuminations, One Way Street and The Arcades Project, but h ...Show more
The Storyteller - Tales Out of Loneliness by Walter Benjamin; Sam Dolbear (Editor); Esther Leslie (Editor); Sebastian Truskolaski (Editor); Paul Klee (Illustrator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker's short stories 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 Pro ...Show more
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
$14.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books ...Show more
Walter Benjamin: Paris Arcades by Walter Benjamin
$18.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Walter Benjamin began taking notes on Paris' arcades in 1927, commencing an ambitious book project which sadly remained incomplete at the time of his suicide in Portbou in 1940. It was published posthumously as "The Arcades Project." In her introduction to this facsimile selection of Benjamin's handwrit ...Show more
Walter Benjamin's Archive - Images, Texts, Signs by Walter Benjamin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents 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. ...Show more
Work Of Art In The Age Of Its Technological Reproducibility by Walter Benjamin
$45.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Addresses the utopian developments of the modern media. This collection tracks the author's observations on the media as they are revealed in essays on the production and reception of art; on film, radio, and photography; and on the modern transformations of literature and painting.