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Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $64.69The 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,... -
Walter Benjamin: A Little History of Photography by Walter Benjamin 9783753304014
RRP: $16.54Booksplease Price: $13.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753304014Author Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint -
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $30.32Illuminations 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',... -
Radio Benjamin by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.80Walter 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: Selected Writings, 4: 1938-1940 by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $64.14Booksplease Price: $52.24"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... -
The Storyteller Essays by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $29.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370583Author Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint -
Walter Benjamin by Esther Leslie 9781861893437
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04Walter 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... -
Origin of the German Trauerspiel by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $45.10Booksplease Price: $39.29Origin 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: $42.82Booksplease Price: $36.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170328Author Gershom ScholemFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint -
Unpacking My Library by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $13.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475841Author Walter BenjaminPage Count 26Imprint -
One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $37.96Booksplease Price: $28.44One-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: $40.44Booksplease Price: $38.53Walter 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... -
The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.25The 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... -
Berlin Childhood around 1900 by Walter Benjamin 9780674022225
RRP: $45.10Booksplease Price: $40.65Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now... -
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Consultant Statistician Walter Benjamin
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $29.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328470232Author Consultant Statistician Walter BenjaminFormat Paperback -
The Origin of German Tragic Drama Walter Benjamin 9781804290460
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.78The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and... -
Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $42.27Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation... -
One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's... -
Berlin Childhood ca. 1900 by Walter Benjamin 9781836740148
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $33.42Completed in exile in Paris, as the second World War was dawning, Walter Benjamin looks back at the city of his birth at the beginning of the century. The book is both a sensory memoir of childhood... -
A Walk Through Paris: A Radical Exploration by Eric Hazan
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.23Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, leads us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, passing such familiar landmarks as the Luxembourg Gardens, the Pompidou... -
Doing Justice – Three Essays on Walter Benjamin by P Oyarzún
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $36.51Pablo Oyarzun is one of the foremost Benjamin scholars in Latin America. His writings have shaped the reception of Benjamin's work in Latin America and have been central to the effort to identify the... -
Walter Benjamin: A Very Short Introduction Eli Zaretsky 9780197670033
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is now generally recognized as one of the most influential thinkers of the last century. This Very Short Introduction explores his extraordinary life and thought. His... -
Walter Benjamin: Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism Terry Eagleton 9781804296165
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.80This momentous study of Benjamin's critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton's thought. Its goal is not merely to contemplate Benjamin's approach to language, history, and art but to chart a... -
One-Way Street: And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin 9781839761652
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.78Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings,... -
Introducing Walter Benjamin: A Graphic Guide by Howard Caygill 9781848316928
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87Walter Benjamin is often considered the key modern philosopher and critic of modern art.Tracing his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history, Introducing Walter Benjamin highlights his... -
The Benjamin Files Fredric Jameson 9781839765575
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.80The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an... -
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin 9780141036199
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.33One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art... -
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries
Booksplease Price: $75.99In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent... -
Primitive Thinking: Figuring Alterity in German Modernity by Nicola Gess 9783111520803
RRP: $54.74Booksplease Price: $39.10This book examines the discourse on 'primitive thinking' in early twentieth century Germany. It explores texts from the social sciences, writings on art and language and - most centrally - literary... -
The Angel of History: Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem by Stephane Moses
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $43.41In The Angel of History, Moses looks at three Jewish philosophers-Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem-who formulated a new vision of history in 1920s Germany by moving away from... -
Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'on the Concept of History' by Michael Lowy 9781784786410
Booksplease Price: $35.15Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism - Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an... -
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Consultant Statistician Walter Benjamin 9781328470225
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $37.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328470225Author Consultant Statistician Walter BenjaminFormat Paperback -
Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism by Walter Benjamin 9781804290453
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.78Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history... -
Foreplay: Hannah Arendt, the Two Adornos and Walter Benjamin by Carl Djerassi 9780299283346
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.27Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno were intellectual giants of the first half of the twentieth century. The drama Foreplay explores their deeply human and psychologically... -
The Angel of History: Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem by Stephane Moses 9780804741163 [USED COPY]
RRP: $209.44Booksplease Price: $16.35In The Angel of History, Moses looks at three Jewish philosophers-Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem-who formulated a new vision of history in 1920s Germany by moving away from... -
Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics by Ted A. Smith
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.70Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the... -
The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson, R. Nevitt Sanford 9781788731645
RRP: $140.40Booksplease Price: $66.40What makes a fascist? Are there character traits that make someone more likely to vote for the far right? The Authoritarian Personality, written in the shadow of Fascism and the Holocaust, looked to... -
Walter Benjamin Reimagined: A Graphic Translation of Poetry, Prose, Aphorisms, and Dreams by Frances Cannon
RRP: $54.74Booksplease Price: $38.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039963Author Frances CannonFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint -
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.02Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in... -
How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism by Martin Shuster 9780253054548
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.70What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster provides answers to...