Find og sammenlign priser på tusindvis af bøger
90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories. From intimate musings on his book collection, to a dream-like trip through the bustlin
"I fully realize that my discussion of the mental climate of collecting will confirm many of you in your conviction that this passion is behind the times, in your distrust of the collector type. Nothing is further from my mind than to shake either yo
Walter Benjamin discusses whether art is diminished by the modern culture of mass replication, arriving at the conclusion that the aura or soul of an artwork is indeed removed by duplication. In an essay critical of modern fashion and manufacture, Benjami
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 impli
Zwei Gedichte von Friedrich Hölderlin - Über Sprache überhaupt und über die Sprache des Menschen - Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers - Erkenntniskritische Vorrede zum »Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels« -Über das mimetische Vermögen - Schicksal und Charakter
Walter Benjamin: Berliner Chronik Sammlung von Beitragen uber Berlin, 1932 geschrieben. Vorlaufer der Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert. Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Ve
Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including 'One-Way Street', his dr
I Lille fotografihistorie (1931) undersøger Walter Benjamin, hvordan fotografiet ikke blot afbilder verden, men aktivt former vores syn på den. Med begrebet det optisk ubevidste det kame¬raet fanger, men som undslipper det menneskelige blik åbner Benjam
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 Project . His sto
Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history. Yet it was through his study of the social and cultural hi
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. Thi
"Dieser Band vereinigt fünf Texte, die in einem inneren Zusammenhang stehen; sie zeigen die Entwicklung zentraler Motive von Benjamins Denken auf. Eingeleitet wird er durch eine sehr frühe Studie Über das Programm der kommenden Philosophie. Es folgen
The relationship between philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin and playwright-poet Bertolt Brecht was both a lasting friendship and a powerful intellectual partnership. Having met in the late 1920s in Germany, Benjamin and Brecht both independently minded Ma
Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to '33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of rad
"Benjamins "Rundfunkarbeiten" haben bislang nicht unbedingt die Aufmerksamkeit erhalten, die sie verdienen. Gewohnt sprachlich klar und pointiert reflektiert W. B. hier über das neue Medium, das ihm über seine Hörspiele und Moderationen so
Ensrettet gade (1928) er den tyske filosof, essayist og litteraturkritikers drømmeagtige og aforistiske observationer om det urbane liv i Weimarrepublikken. Med afsæt i det levede livs erfaring tilbyder Benjamin en traktat om at sanse og tænke i et komple
Benjamin gilt als der »meistzitierte Theoretiker der Kulturwissenschaften« in der zweiten Hälfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, was umso erstaunlicher ist, je mehr man sich mit diesem eigenwilligen Denker beschäftigt. Zu Lebzeiten erschienen gerade einmal
Walter Benjamins Tankebillederbevæger sig i et erfaringsfelt mellem erindrings- og drømmebeskrivelser, rejseskildringer og kulturundersøgelser, der udover at være grænsegænger i såvel et geografisk som et intellektuelt landskab også går på tværs af grænse
Walter Benjamins essay A Short History of Photography (1931) made bold statements about photographic pioneers such as David Octavius Hill and Nicéphore Niépce, and the social and historical context of their work. This first selection of Benjamins writings
Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', The Task of the Translator and 'Theses on the P
Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamins lifetime, one of his large-scale defeats. Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the bas
Walter Benjamins famous Work of Art essay sets out his boldest thoughtson media and on culture in generalin their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the machine a
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), tysk jødisk filosof og forfatter, begik selvmord i Pyrenæerne på flugt for nazismen, kendt især for sit uafsluttede Passageværk. Klassisk erindringsværk fra storbyen Berlin fra forrige århundrede.
Walter Benjamin's essays on the great French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire revolutionized not just the way we think about Baudelaire, but our understanding of modernity and modernism as well. In these essays, Benjamin challenges the image of Baudelair
"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 atte
Walter Benjamins berømte og berygtede bog om det tyske barokdrama af den såkaldt silesiske skole, Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels (udgivet 1928) er et på alle måder usædvanligt kritisk værk, der udfordrer vante kategoriseringer. Sørgespil-bogen er ne
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 Se
Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a cl
Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of h
On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin's reflections on the central figure in modern German culture. The writings in this volumenewly translated, fully annotated, and framed by an extensive introductiondisplay a variety of styles and cov
"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The
»Benjamin ist ein Sprachmagier, der die Kunst beherrscht, seine Leser zu verführen.« (Dfunk Kultur) Unsere Werkausgabe bündelt seine zentralen Schriften in zwei umfangreichen Bänden. Sie werden ergänzt von Briefen, die die einzelnen Werke in einen biograf
Der berühmte »Kunstwerk-Aufsatz« mit seinen Thesen von der Krise des auratischen Kunstwerks gehört sicherlich zu den am stärksten rezipierten Texten aus Walter Benjamins Werk. Er hat bis heute nichts von seiner Sprengkraft eingebüßt und löst immer wieder