Walter Benjamin. Jephcott, Eiland, Jennings, (EDT) 9780674019812 New**

Name: Walter Benjamin. Jephcott, Eiland, Jennings, (EDT) 9780674019812 New**
Brand: Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press

Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated.\nThe centerpiece, A Berlin Childhood around 1900, marks the first appearance in English of one of the greatest German works of the twentieth century: a profound and beautiful account of the vanished world of Benjamin's privileged boyhood, recollected in exile. No less remarkable are the previously untranslated second version of Benjamin's most famous essay, \""The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility,\"" with its striking insights into the relations between\n\nWalter Benjamin: Selected Writings\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the price adverti;