9780674945869
Selected Writings: 1927-1934
Walter Benjamin; Gary Smith; Rodney Livingstone; Michael W. Jennings; Howard Eiland; Marcus Paul Bullock; Michael William Jennings
ISBN 13: 9780674945869
Publisher: Belknap Pr
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
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Volume 2 in a 3-vol series of English trans. of the works of philosopher Walter Benjamin, (already considered by those familiar with the project to be the standard edition of Benjamin's work), contains 140 essays, fragments, diary excerpts, articles, and reviews. Pieces herein include 'Unpacking my Library' and 'The Task of the Critic.
Review:
"A cause for excitement among literary essayists and critics: Walter Benjamin's scattered works are at last being translated and collected in a carefully edited edition...Most of his writings--including some of his most extraordinary accomplishments--have never been translated. The loss for American readers is substantial. At long last...a three-volume, chronologically organized edition of the essays, memoirs, reviews, aphorisms, fragments, and other short forms is being issued...The overall quality of the translations is high...And in Benjamin's case, this is no mean accomplishment...His peculiar gift was...for lightning flashes of sudden, precise, and idiosyncratic illumination. The translators have supplied useful (though relatively sparing) explanatory notes, and the editors have appended a narrative chronology of Benjamin's life through 1926...This new Benjamin set will be the standard work."
Kirkus, 10/01/1996
Review:"The appeal of Benjamin's writing, according to Terry Eagleton, lies in the way it manages marvellously to combine...a...[Marxist] "aesthetics" with the entrancing esotericism of the Kabbala.'...Benjamin is admired not in spite of but because of his arcane syntax, murky vocabulary, and buried meanings...You have to seek the truth in Benjamin's writings, if you have the patience, and not treat them as conveying knowledge. There is an awful lot of husk to burn in the process, butthe theory of truth, if true, explains the obscurity."
Arthur C. Danto, Artforum
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