{"product_id":"walter-benjamin-walter-benjamin-9780674017467","title":"Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eSelected Writings\u003c\/i\u003e is now available in paperback in two parts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary essays, \"Surrealism\" and \"On the Image of Proust,\" as well as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection of his wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays, \"Franz Kafka,\" \"Karl Kraus,\" and \"The Author as Producer,\" the extended autobiographical meditation \"A Berlin Chronicle,\" and extended discussions of the history of photography and the social situation of the French writer, previously untranslated shorter pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, and on such influential figures as Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Walter Benjamin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674017463\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674017467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.19h x 6.39w x 0.91d","brand":"Walter Benjamin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43920452944127,"sku":"9780674017467","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_676c567c-bbf9-4e67-a3f2-d8b60396e1a6.jpg?v=1680815447","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/walter-benjamin-walter-benjamin-9780674017467","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}