One-Way Street And Other Writings By Walter Benjamin
One-Way Street And Other Writings
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By Walter Benjamin Introduction by Susan Sontag
Classic collection of Walter Benjamin’s celebrated essays.
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, contains the most representative and illuminating selection of his work over a twenty-year period, showing 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.
Paperback 480 pages Verso Books, 2021 Originally published in 1979 5 x 7.8 inches ISBN 9781839761652 Philosophy