BENJAMIN WALTER

(P/B) BERLIN CHILDHOOD AROUND 1900
Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered "final version" that contains the author's own arrangement of a suite of luminous vignettes, it can be more widely appreciated as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century prose writing. Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Benjamin's recollectio...
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(P/B) ILLUMINATIONS
The literary-philosophical works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) rank among the most quietly influential of the post-war era, though only since his death had Benjamin achieved the fame and critical currency outside his native Germany accorded him by a select few during his lifetime. Now he is widely held to have possessed one of the most acute and original minds of the Central European culture decimated by the Nazis. Illuminations contains his two most celebrated essays, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' and 'Theses on...
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(P/B) WALTER BENJAMIN AND THE CORPUS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Although Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is considered one of the most significant writers and theorists in twentieth-century Western culture, his enigmatic sense of the political has eluded definition. His later work in particular stages a perpetual but little understood confrontation with German fascism. Gerhard Richter shows that Benjamin's engagement with the political cannot be understood in terms of unified concepts and fully deducible theses that can be easily verified or refuted. Rather than explaining his sense of the political, Benja...
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(H/B) CORRESPONDENCE, 1930-1940
We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon. So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 from the south of France, shortly before he took his own life. The correspondence between Gretel Adorno and Walter Benjamin, published here in its complete form for the first time, is the document of a great friendship that existed independently of Benjamin's relationship with Theodor W. Adorno. While Benjamin, alongside his everyday worries, wr...
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(H/B) WALTER BENJAMIN'S ARCHIVE
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. It comprises myriad smaller archives, in which Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artefacts, 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 them, Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging...
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ΘΕΣΕΙΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ - Ο ΣΟΥΡΡΕΑΛΙΣΜΟΣ - ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΕΙΚΟΝΑ ΤΟΥ ΠΡΟΥΣΤ
"Ιστορική σύνθεση του παρελθόντος δεν σημαίνει αναγνώρισή του "με τον τρόπο που υπήρξε πραγματικά". Σημαίνει συγκράτηση μιας μνήμης, καθώς αστράφτει τη στιγμή του κινδύνου. Προσπαθεί γι' αυτό το λόγο ο ιστορικός υλισμός να συλλάβει μια εικόνα του παρελθόντος, καθώς εμφανίζεται αυτή απροσδόκητα στο ιστορικό υποκείμενο τη στιγμή του κινδύνου. Ο κίνδυνος απειλεί και τη συνέχιση της παράδοσης και τους παραλήπτες της. Είναι και για τους δύο ίδιος: να γίνουν όργανα της κυρίαρχης τάξης. Σε κάθε εποχή πρέπει να επιδιώκεται η εκ νέου απόσταση της π...
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(H/B) EARLY WRITINGS
Walter Benjamin became a published writer at the age of seventeen. Yet the first stirrings of this most original of critical minds-penned during the years in which he transformed himself from the comfortable son of a haute-bourgeois German Jewish family into the nomadic, uncompromising philosopher-critic we have since come to appreciate-have until now remained largely unavailable in English. Early Writings, 1910-1917 rectifies this situation, documenting the formative intellectual experiences of one of the twentieth century's most resolute...
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ΓΙΑΣΠΕΡΣ: Η ΓΛΩΣΣΑ

ΔΟΚΙΜΙΑ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΓΛΩΣΣΑΣ
ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΚΟ ΣΗΜΕΙΩΜΑ 1. ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΓΛΩΣΣΑ ΕΝ ΓΕΝΕΙ ΚΑΙ ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΓΛΩΣΣΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΥ 2. ΤΟ ΕΡΓΟ ΤΟΥ ΜΕΤΑΦΡΑΣΤΗ 3. ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΜΙΜΗΤΙΚΗ ΙΚΑΝΟΤΗΤΑ 4. Η ΓΕΝΕΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΑΛΛΗΓΟΡΙΑΣ 5. Ο ΑΦΗΓΗΤΗΣ ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΤΙΚΑ ΣΧΟΛΙΑ ΕΠΙΜΕΤΡΟ: «ΜΠΩΝΤΛΑΙΡ», Ή ΤΟ ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΟ ΓΡΑΠΤΟ...
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(P/B) THE COMPLETE CORRESPONDENCE 1928-1940
The correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, which appears here for the first time in its entirety in English translation, must rank among the most significant to have come down to us from that notable age of barbarism, the twentieth century. Benjamin and Adorno formed a uniquely powerful pair. Benjamin, riddle-like in his personality and given to tactical evasion, and Adorno, full of his own importance, alternately support and compete with each other throughout the correspondence, until its imminent tragic end becomes ap...
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(H/B) WALTER BENJAMIN: SELECTED WRITINGS (VOLUME 4)
"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to flee the Nazis. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings in the final years of his life, the "victories wrested" in this period nonetheless constitute some of the most remarkable twentieth-century analyses of the emergence of modern society. The essays on Cha...
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ΜΠΕΝΓΙΑΜΙΝ: ΤΟ ΧΑΣΙΣ ΣΤΗ ΜΑΣΣΑΛΙΑ

(H/B) WALTER BENJAMIN: SELECTED WRITINGS (VOLUME 3)
Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated. The centerpiece, A Berlin Childhood around 1900, marks the first appearance in English of one of the greatest German works of the twentieth century: a profound and beautiful account of the vanished world of Benjamin's privileged bo...
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(P/B) THE COMPLETE CORRESPONDENCE 1928-1940
The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno....
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