Illuminations by Walter Benjamin

Illuminations

Walter Benjamin with Hannah Arendt (Contributor), Harry Zohn (Translator)

267 pages first pub 1969 (view editions)

nonfiction essays philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced
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Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Pr...

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informative: 84%

challenging: 73%

inspiring: 26%

dark: 10%

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