Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings

by Walter Benjamin

Book Overview

In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings is now available in paperback in two parts.

In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust," as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674015886
• ISBN13: 9780674015883
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"