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Walter Benjamin. Volume 4, 1938-1940 : selected writings / translated by Edmund Jephcott and others ; edited by Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings.

By: Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940Contributor(s): Eiland, Howard | Jennings, Michael WilliamMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006Description: vi, 477 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780674022294 (pbk.) :; 0674022297 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Translations into English | LiteratureDDC classification: 838.9'1209 Summary: This volume covers studies of Baudelaire, Brecht, and the historian Carl Jochmann to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry, with the underlying question of how art can survive and thrive in a tumultuous time. Here Benjamin lays out an ethic for the critic and artist of a subdued but resilient heroism.
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This translation originally published: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This volume covers studies of Baudelaire, Brecht, and the historian Carl Jochmann to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry, with the underlying question of how art can survive and thrive in a tumultuous time. Here Benjamin lays out an ethic for the critic and artist of a subdued but resilient heroism.

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Translated from the German.

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