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Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940,

Reflections : essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings / - xlvii, 348 pages ; 21 cm

"First Schocken edition published in 1986"--Title page verso "Preface copyright 2007 by Leon Wieseltier"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-340) and index.

A Berlin chronicle -- One-way street (selection) -- Moscow -- Marseilles -- Hashish in Marseilles -- Paris, capital of the nineteenth century -- Naples -- Surrealism -- Brecht's Threepenny novel -- Conversations with Brecht -- The author as producer -- Karl Kraus -- Critique of violence -- The destructive character -- Fate and character -- Theologico-political fragment -- On language as such and on the language of man -- On the mimetic faculty.

ISBN: 9780805208023 080520802X

Subjects--Personal Names:
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 --Translations into English.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 --studies
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Intellectuals--Germany--Biography.
Intellectuels--Allemagne--Biographies.
Intellectuals

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Germany

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biography
Biographies
Translations
Biographies.
Biographies.

LC Class. No.: PT2603.E455 / A26 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 809 B468r 2007

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 8(04)