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1917 - The Russian Revolution by Walter Rodney; Jessie Benjamin (Editor); Robin D. G. Kelley (Editor); Vijay Prashad (Foreword by)
32.99 AUD
Category: History
A never-before-published book by the Pan-Africanist and socialist scholar and revolutionary In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading revolutionary thinkers of the Black Sixties. Earning his PhD in 1966 at the age of 24 and publishing his influential histor ...Show more
50 Years after 50 Years of the Bauhaus by Iris Dressler (Editor); Hans D Christ (Editor); Daniel García Andújar (Text by); John Barker (Text by); Walter Benjamin (Text by); Tamar Berger (Text by); Max Bill (Text by); Yvonne P. Doderer (Text by); Walter Gropius (Text by); Danny Hayward (Text by); Helmut Heissenbüttel (Text by); Asger Jorn (Text by)
115.00 AUD
Category: Design
On the legacy of a landmark Bauhaus exhibition and the school's intersection with the Situationist International and other avant-garde movementsOn May 4, 1968, a few hours after student protesters in Paris caused the Sorbonne to be evacuated, the landmark exhibition 50 Years Bauhaus opened at the Württe ...Show more
Aesthetics and Politics by Theodor W. Adorno (Author) , Walter Benjamin (Author) , Ernst Bloch (Author) , Bertolt Brecht (Author) , Georg Lukacs (Author)
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Category: Art
Features the text in the great controversies over literature and art between thinkers who have become giants of 20th-century philosophy.
Charles Baudelaire - A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism by Walter Benjamin; Harry Zohn (Translator)
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Category: Biography & Memoir
A classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire's life and work Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history. Yet it was thr ...Show more
Dreams By Walter Benjamin by Walter Benjamin (Columbia University)
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Dreams highlights a dimension of Benjamin’s thinking that was invaluable for his writing and thought but which has thus far received little attention. The first section, “Dream Notes,” is a comprehensive and chronological collection of Benjamin’s transcriptions of his own dreams and includes unpublished ...Show more
Illuminations - Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: good
Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century.
One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin; Michael W. Jennings; Edmund Jephcott; Greil Marcus
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature--by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offe ...Show more
One-Way Street: And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
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Category: History
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
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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
Radio Benjamin by Walter Benjamin
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From 1927 to 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and presented more than eighty broadcasts over the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers, for the first time in English, the surviving transcripts. This eclectic collection shows the range of Benjamin's thinking and includes stories for young and old, plays ...Show more
Radio Benjamin by Walter Benjamin; Lecia Rosenthal (Editor); Jonathan Lutes (Translator); Lisa Harries Schumann (Translator); Diana Reese (Translator)
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Category: Biography & Memoir
From 1927 to 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and presented more than eighty broadcasts over the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers, for the first time in English, the surviving transcripts. This eclectic collection shows the range of Benjamin's thinking and includes stories for young and old, plays ...Show more
The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Belknap Press Ser.
To great writers, Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labour their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, "The Arcades Project" (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin ...Show more