![]() ![]() Leon Wieseltier's preface explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamins life in a dark historical era. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in a dark historical era. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his theses on the philosophy of history. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity his studies on Baudelaire and Proust and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic theater. “For Benjamin to quote is to name, and naming rather than speaking, the word rather than the sentence, brings truth to light.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. In this they must of necessity discover the beautiful, which need ‘disinterested delight’ (Kant) to be recognized.” (42) Introduction: Walter Benjamin : 1892-1940 / by Hannah Arendt - Unpacking my library : a talk about book collecting - The task of the translator : an introduction to the translation of Baudelaire's Tableaux parisiens - The storyteller : reflections on the. As Benjamin was the first to emphasize, collecting is the passion of children, for whom things are not yet commodities and are not valued according to their usefulness, and it is also the hobby of the rich, who own enough not to need anything useful and hence can afford to make ‘the transfiguration of objects’ ( Schriften I, 416) their business. Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. “Collecting springs from a variety of motives which are not easily understood. Not that he ever stopped collecting books…)” (39) It started early with what he himself called his ‘bibliomania’ but soon extended into something far more characteristic, not so much of the person as of his work: the collecting of quotations. “I have already mentioned that collecting was Benjamin’s central passion. “Quotations in my works are like robbers by the roadside who make an armed attack an relieve an idler of his convictions.” ( Schriften I, 571) Linguistic ‘transference’ enables us to give material form to the invisible – ‘A mighty fortress is our God’ – and thus to render is capable of being experienced.” (14)īenjamin on the discovery of the modern function of quotations (p. What is so hard to understand about Benjamin is that without being a poet he thought poetically and therefore was bound to regard the metaphor as the greatest gift of language. “Metaphors are the means by which the oneness of the world is poetically brought about. while Hannah Arendts introduction reveals how his life and work are a. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and prefaces them with a substantial, admirably informed introduction that presents Benjamin's personality and intellectual development, as well as his work and his life in dark times.Reflections the companion volume to this book, is also available in Schocken paperback. The smaller the object, the more likely it seemed that it could contain in the most concentrated form everything else…” (11-12) most influential thinkers of the 20th century Illuminations contains the most. And this passion, far from being a whim, derived directly from the only world view that ever had a decisive influence on him, from Goethe’s conviction of the factual existence of an Urphänomen, an archetypal phenomenon, a concrete thing to be discovered in the world of appearances in which ‘significance’ and appearance, word and thing, idea and experience, would coincide. ![]() Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most. ![]() “For him the size of an object was in an inverse relationship to its significance. Benjamin, Walter Zorn, Harry, translator Arendt, Hannah, editor. Bibliographic information Contributor, Hannah Arendt Edition, reprint Publisher, Pimlico, 1999 ISBN, 0712665757, 9780712665759 Length, 267 pages. From the Introduction by Hannah Arendt to Walter Benjamin’s Illuminations (Schocken, 1969, 2007 printing): ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |