Selected writings / Walter Benjamin ; Michael W. Jennings, general editor ; Marcus Bullock, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith, editorial board.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Bullock, Marcus Paul, 1944-

Jennings, Michael William.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English. 1996

Language:

English

German

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

volumes ; illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1996-

Summary:

Radical 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 in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated.

Contents:

v. 1. 1913-1926 / edited by Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings

v. 2. 1927-1934 / translated by Rodney Livingstone and others ; edited by Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith

v. 3. 1935-1938 / translated by Edmund Jephcott, Howard Eiland and others ; edited by Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings

v. 4. 1938-1940 /edited by Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings.

Notes:

"This work is a translation of selections from Gesammelte Schriften, by Walter Benjamin, copyright 1972 ... by Suhrkamp Verlag"--T.p. verso.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy includes volume 1 only.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0674945859

0674945867

0674008960

0674010760

OCLC:

34705134