{"product_id":"walter-benjamin-selected-writings-1","title":"Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWalter Benjamin: Selected Writings\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eWalter Benjamin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780674015883\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBelknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e480\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the \u003ci\u003eSelected Writings\u003c\/i\u003e is now available in paperback in two parts. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary essays, \"Surrealism\" and \"On the Image of Proust,\" as well as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection of his wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays, \"Franz Kafka,\" \"Karl Kraus,\" and \"The Author as Producer,\" the extended autobiographical meditation \"A Berlin Chronicle,\" and extended discussions of the history of photography and the social situation of the French writer, previously untranslated shorter pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, and on such influential figures as Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings | Walter Benjamin | Paperback | 9780674015883 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks C 1759451","offer_id":49199691333784,"sku":"1759451","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61Qo2V8VGTL.jpg?v=1780697325","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/walter-benjamin-selected-writings-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}