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Aesthetics and Politics by Theodor W. Adorno (Author) , Walter Benjamin (Author) , Ernst Bloch (Author) , Bertolt Brecht (Author) , Georg Lukacs (Author)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Features the text in the great controversies over literature and art between thinkers who have become giants of 20th-century philosophy.
Berlin Childhood Around 1900 by Walter Benjamin (Howard Eiland transl.)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered "final version" ...Show more
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
$42.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
This text contains two of Walter Benjamin's essays, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", and "Theses on the Philosophy of History", as well as others on the art of translation, Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, Proust, and book collecting.
Illuminations - Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
$39.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Reading Level: good
Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century.
On Hashish by Walter Benjamin
$31.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Provides an intimate portrait of Walter Benjamin, venturesome at the end of the Weimar Republic, and of his unique form of thought. This English-language edition features a section of supplementary materials - drawn from Benjamin's essays, letters and sketches - relating to hashish use, as well as a rem ...Show more
One-Way Street: And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
$27.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions. This collection, introduced by Susan Sontag, contain ...Show more
One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
$30.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including "One-Way Street", his dreamlike, aphoristic observations of urban life in Weimar Germ ...Show more
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
$29.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books ...Show more
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