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ILLUMINATIONS - WALTER BENJAMIN KARTONIERT (TB)

A selection of works from one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century-as
selected by Hannah Arendt and including a classic essay of her own about Walter Benjamin's life
and philosophy.¶ There has been no more original  no more serious critic and reader in our
time.-George Steiner ¶ An icon of criticism  Walter Benjamin was renowned for his insights on
art  literature  and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka  with whom he felt a
close personal affinity  his studies on Baudelaire and Proust  and his essays on Leskov and on
Brecht's epic theater. Illuminations includes two of Benjamin's best-known  deeply enlightening
essays  The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and Theses on the Philosophy of
History  as well as Hannah Arendt's own essay about her subject's life as a German-born Jew
during a dark era.

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