{"product_id":"walter-benjamin-walter-benjamin-9780674019812","title":"Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eRadical 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 third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe centerpiece, \u003ci\u003eA Berlin Childhood around 1900\u003c\/i\u003e, marks the first appearance in English of one of the greatest German works of the twentieth century: a profound and 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,\" with its striking insights into the relations between technology and aesthetics, and \u003ci\u003eGerman Men and Women\u003c\/i\u003e, a book in which Benjamin collects twenty-six 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVolume 3 also offers extensively annotated translations of essays that are key to Benjamin's rewriting of the story of modernism and modernity--such as \"The Storyteller\" and \"Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century\"--as well as a fascinating diary from 1938 and penetrating studies of Bertolt Brecht, Franz Kafka, and Eduard Fuchs. A narrative chronology details Benjamin's life during these four harrowing years of his exile in France and Denmark. This is an essential collection for anyone interested in his work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Walter Benjamin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674019814\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674019812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.02w x 0.90d","brand":"Walter Benjamin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43920453501183,"sku":"9780674019812","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_21b31809-e039-47d2-a412-d3a6a33e7e9c.jpg?v=1680815450","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/walter-benjamin-walter-benjamin-9780674019812","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}