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The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940 by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.99Called "the most important critic of his time" by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has assumed a crucial place in current debates over the... -
Radio Benjamin by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.09Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to '33, he wrote and presented something in the... -
Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.05The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life,... -
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Illuminations 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',... -
On Hashish by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.50Walter Benjamin's posthumously published collection of writings on hashish is a detailed blueprint for a book that was never written--a "truly exceptional book about hashish," as Benjamin... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 4: 1938-1940 by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £19.44"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 3: 1935-1938 by Walter Benjamin 9780674019812
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £25.12Radical 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... -
On Goethe Walter Benjamin 9781503642225
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin's reflections on the central figure in modern German culture. The writings in this volume-newly translated, fully annotated, and framed by an... -
On Goethe Walter Benjamin 9781503630963
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin's reflections on the central figure in modern German culture. The writings in this volume-newly translated, fully annotated, and framed by an... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1: 1913-1926 by Walter Benjamin 9780674013551
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £21.61Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press... -
The Storyteller Essays by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370583Author Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The... -
The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £30.30"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when... -
Walter Benjamin and the Media: The Spectacle of Modernity by Jaeho Kang 9780745645209
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century, offered a unique insight into the profound impact of the media on modern society. Jaeho Kang's... -
Walter Benjamin by Esther Leslie 9781861893437
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Walter Benjamin, critic, essayist, translator, philosopher one of the twentieth century's most influential intellectuals continues to intrigue today. His work stimulates a profusion of responses in... -
Moscow Diary by Walter Benjamin 9780674587441
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.38The life of the German-Jewish literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is a veritable allegory of the life of letters in the twentieth century. Benjamin's intellectual odyssey... -
Walter Benjamin: A Biography by Ingrida Ligers
Booksplease Price: £23.11Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is now generally recognized as one of the most original and influential thinkers of this century. In Britain and the United States in particular, he has acquired a status... -
Origin of the German Trauerspiel by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.51Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin's first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as "The Origin of German Tragic Drama," but in fact the... -
Walter Benjamin by Gershom Gerhard Scholem
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170328Author Gershom ScholemFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The... -
Unpacking My Library by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475841Author Walter BenjaminPage Count 26Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS -
One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £11.95One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature-by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new... -
Walter Benjamin and the Media: The Spectacle of Modernity Jaeho Kang (New School for Social Research) 9780745645216
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century, offered a unique insight into the profound impact of the media on modern society. Jaeho Kang's... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2: Part 2: 1931-1934 by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £25.12In 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... -
Force: A Fundamental Concept of Aesthetic Anthropology by Christoph Menke
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The book aims at a new exposition of the basic idea of modern aesthetics by way of a reconstruction of its genesis in the 18th century, between Baumgarten's Aesthetics and Kant's Critique of Judgment... -
God, Justice, Love, Beauty: Four Little Dialogues by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.89The four talks collected here transcribe lectures delivered to an audience of children between the ages of ten and fourteen, under the auspices of the "little dialogues" series at the Montreuil's... -
Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Film Daniel Mourenza 9781041190509
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39Walter Benjamin is today regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. Often captured in pensive pose, his image is now that of a serious intellectual. But Benjamin was also a fan... -
Understanding Brecht by Walter Benjamin 9781804294796
Booksplease Price: £14.24The relationship between philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin and playwright-poet Bertolt Brecht was both a lasting friendship and a powerful intellectual partnership. Having met in the late 1920s in... -
God, Justice, Love, Beauty: Four Little Dialogues by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780823234257
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64The four talks collected here transcribe lectures delivered to an audience of children between the ages of ten and fourteen, under the auspices of the "little dialogues" series at the Montreuil's... -
Ideology After Poststructuralism Sinisa Malesevic 9780745318073
Booksplease Price: £51.21Ideology is a hotly disputed term in social and political theory. It continues to generate intellectual dispute more than 200 years after its birth in the fervour of the French Revolution. Most... -
Inheriting Walter Benjamin by Gerhard Richter 9781474251235
Booksplease Price: £28.50Gerhard Richter examines, in the work of Walter Benjamin, one of the central problems of modernity: the question of how to receive an intellectual inheritance. Covering aspects of Benjamin's... -
Walter Benjamin's Concept of the Image by Alison Ross
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08In this book, Alison Ross engages in a detailed study of Walter Benjamin's concept of the image, exploring the significant shifts in Benjamin's approach to the topic over the course of his career... -
The Actuality of Walter Benjamin by Laura Marcus 9780853158639
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.19This collection of essays concentrates on the work of Walter Benjamin. Topics covered include: the question of historical understanding versus historicism; Benjamin and the sources of Judaism;... -
The Work of Terrence Malick: Time-Based Ecocinema Gabriella Blasi 9781041189411
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39The Work of Terrence Malick: Time-Based Ecocinema develops a timely ecocinema approach to film analysis illuminated by Benjamin's notion of the turn of time. Current work on Malick's films emphasizes... -
The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including... -
Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations by Graeme Gilloch
Booksplease Price: £21.68The works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth-century critical thought, and have become required reading for... -
Unpacking My Library by Walter Benjamin 9780241747261
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.74‘Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories.’From intimate musings on his book collection, to a dream-like trip through the... -
Walter Benjamin's Grave by Michael Taussig 9780226790039
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt... -
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen by Larry McMurtry
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684870199Author McmurtryPage Count 208Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Politics of Benjamin's Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade by Brendan Moran 9783319720104
Booksplease Price: £102.50This book provides a critical assessment of Benjamin's writings on Franz Kafka and of Benjamin's related writings. Eliciting from Benjamin's writings a conception of philosophy that is political in... -
Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience by Howard Caygill
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08This book analyzes the development of Walter Benjamin's concept of experience in his early writings showing that it emerges from an engagement with visual experience, and in particular the experience... -
Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption by Richard Wolin
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic. Richard Wolin's book remains among the clearest and most...