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Title: Illuminations
Condition: New
Author: Walter Benjamin
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1847923860
EAN: 9781847923868
ISBN: 9781847923868
Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd
Genre: Biography
Topic: Literary Criticism, History, Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 05/11/2015
Description:

Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', ‘The Task of the Translator’ and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as essays on Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, Proust and an anatomy of his own obsession, book collecting.

This now legendary volume offers the best possible access to Benjamin’s singular and significant achievement, while Hannah Arendt’s introduction reveals how his life and work are a prism to his times.

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