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 third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven
brilliant pieces, nineteen 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 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
"German Men and Women," 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.
Volume 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.
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