Selected Writings: 1935-1938
- ISBN-10
- 0674008960
- ISBN-13
- 9780674008960
- Series
- Selected Writings
- Category
- Aesthetics, German
- Pages
- 462
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Authors
- Gary Smith, Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland
Description
Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.
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