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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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The most important German aesthetician and literary critic of this century -- George Steiner
Benjamin was one of the unclassifiable ones ... whose work neither fits the existing order nor introduces a new genre. -- Hannah Arendt
Benjamin was the interlocutor of all the demons and angels of storytelling. And this is why he knew its endless secrets. Listen to him. -- John Berger
A complex and brilliant writer * J. M. Coetzee *

One-Way Street: And Other Writings

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      Publisher Verso Books
      Published 20 July 2021
      ISBN-13 9781839761652
      978-1839761652
      ISBN-10 1839761652
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      The most important German aesthetician and literary critic of this century -- George Steiner
      Benjamin was one of the unclassifiable ones ... whose work neither fits the existing order nor introduces a new genre. -- Hannah Arendt
      Benjamin was the interlocutor of all the demons and angels of storytelling. And this is why he knew its endless secrets. Listen to him. -- John Berger
      A complex and brilliant writer * J. M. Coetzee *

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