One-way street : and other writings / Walter Benjamin ; translated by Edmund Jephcott and Kingsley Shorter ; introduction by Susan Sontag.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940, author.

Contributor:

Jephcott, E. F. N., translator.

Shorter, Kingsley, translator.

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940--Translations into English.

Benjamin, Walter.

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Genre:

Essays.

Translations.

Physical Description:

vi, 474 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2021.

Summary:

""One-Way Street" is a cornerstone of the Benjamin legacy, exhibiting the richness and multidimensional nature of his thought. Included here are his famous essays on the history of Surrealism and photography; the personal and confessional writing on cities in "Hashish in Marseille" and "Naples"; and his powerful and fragmented recollections of fin de siècle Berlin; alongside his foundational essays on language, violence, psychology, aesthetics, and politics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. One-Way Street

II. On Language As Such And On The Language Of Man

Fate and Character

Critique of Violence

Theologico-Political Fragment

The Destructive Character

On the Mimetic Faculty

III. Naples With Asja Lacis

Moscow

Marseilles

Hashish in Marseilles

Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia

A Small History of Photography

Karl Kraus

V. A Berlin Chronicle

VI. Eduard Fuchs, Collector And Historian.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 456-457) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. One-way street

ISBN:

9781839761652

1839761652

OCLC:

1201663123