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ISBN 10: 0674052293 ISBN 13: 9780674052291
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Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 0674052293 ISBN 13: 9780674052291
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Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2016
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Published by Belknap Pr, 2006
ISBN 10: 0674022297 ISBN 13: 9780674022294
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Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2016
ISBN 10: 0674052293 ISBN 13: 9780674052291
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Published by Belknap Pr, 2006
ISBN 10: 0674022874 ISBN 13: 9780674022874
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Published by Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) and London (UK), 2002
ISBN 10: 0674008960 ISBN 13: 9780674008960
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. NEW: First Edition (Orig. 2002) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW jet-black library-durable coated linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE blued-gray end-papers on light card-stock, IMMACULATE unmarked smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures & uncreased spine, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.24", 0.86 kg, viii+462 (470) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: 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 3d in a 4-volume set, offers 27 brilliant pieces, 19 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 20th century: a profound & beautiful account of the vanished world of Benjamin's privileged boyhood, recollected in exile. No less remarkable are the previously untranslated second version of Benjamin's most famous essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility," w/ its striking insights into the relations between technology & aesthetics, & "German Men and Women", a book in which Benjamin collects 26 letters by distinguished Germans from 1783 to 1883 in an effort to preserve what he called the true humanity of German tradition from the debasement of fascism.Volume 3 also offers extensively annotated translations of essays that are key to Benjamin's rewriting of the story of modernism & modernity--such as "The Storyteller" & "Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century"--as well as a fascinating diary from 1938 & penetrating studies of Bertolt Brecht, Franz Kafka, & Eduard Fuchs. A narrative chronology details Benjamin's life during these four harrowing years of his exile in France & Denmark. This is an essential collection for anyone interested in his work. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations.
Published by Cambridge: Harvard University Press (2006)., 2006
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First printing. 8vo. Frontispiece photograph. vi, 477 pp. Original photographic wrappers. This is a tight, fine book.
Published by Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) and London (UK), 2003
ISBN 10: 0674010760 ISBN 13: 9780674010765
Seller: Mnemosyne, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. NEW: First Edition (Orig. 2003) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW jet-black library-durable coated linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE unmarked smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE blued-gray end-papers on light card-stock, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures & uncreased spine, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.22", 0.86 kg, vi+477 (483) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: "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 20th-century analyses of the emergence of modern society. The essays on Charles Baudelaire are the distillation of a lifetime of thinking about the nature of modernity. They record the crisis of meaning experienced by a civilization sliding into the abyss, even as they testify to Benjamin's own faith in the written word. This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire, Brecht, & the historian Carl Jochmann to appraisals of photography, film, & poetry. At their core is the question of how art can survive & thrive in a tumultuous time. Here we see Benjamin laying out an ethic for the critic and artist--a subdued but resilient heroism. At the same time, he was setting forth a socio-historical account of how art adapts in an age of violence & repression. Working at the height of his powers to the very end, Benjamin refined his theory of the mass media that culminated in the final version of his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility." Also included in this volume is his influential piece "On the Concept of History," completed just before his death. The book is remarkable for its inquiry into the nature of "the modern" (especially as revealed in Baudelaire), for its ideas about the transmogrification of art & the radical discontinuities of history, & for its examples of humane life and thought in the midst of barbarism. The entire collection is eloquent testimony to the indomitable spirit of humanity under siege. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations.
Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0674022874 ISBN 13: 9780674022874
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