Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

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Evropeyskoe i sovetskoe iskusstvo" [Европейское и советское искусство], Vechernyaya Moskva (Вечерняя Москва) 11, 14 Jan 1927, p 2; repr., Zeitschrift für Slawistik 30:5, 1985, pp 697-700. (Russian) Matthew Rampley, Remembrance of Things Past. On Aby M. Warburg and Walter Benjamin, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2000, 138 pp. (English) Berlínské dětství kolem roku 1900", trans. Martin Ritter, in Benjamin, Psaní vzpomínání, Prague: Oikoymenh, 2017. (Czech) Sigrid Weigel, Body- and Image- Space: Re-reading Walter Benjamin, Routledge, 1996, 224 pp. (English)

In the essay, Benjamin's famed ninth thesis struggles to reconcile the Idea of Progress in the present with the apparent chaos of the past: Cohen, Margaret (2006). The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin. Cambridge University Press. pp.119–220. ISBN 9780511999499. Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin ( / ˈ b ɛ n j ə m ɪ n/; German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈbɛnjamiːn] ⓘ; [7] 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940 [8]) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, Jewish mysticism, and Neo-Kantianism, Benjamin made enduring and influential contributions to aesthetic theory, literary criticism, and historical materialism. He was associated with the Frankfurt School, and also maintained formative friendships with thinkers such as playwright Bertolt Brecht and Kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem. He was related to German political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt through her first marriage to Benjamin's cousin Günther Anders though the friendship between Arendt and Benjamin outlasted her marriage to Anders. Both Arendt and Anders were students of Martin Heidegger, whom Benjamin considered a nemesis. [9]

Passagen - Schriften zur französischen Literatur, ed. Gérard Raulet, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2007, 455 pp. [33] Gérard Raulet, Le caractère destructeur: Esthétique, théologie et politique chez Walter Benjamin, Paris: Aubier, 1998. (French)

Beatrice Hanssen, "Language and Mimesis in Walter Benjamin's Work", in The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin, 2004. (English) Ostensibly and analysis of the stories of Russian author Nikolai Leskov. This is merely the introduction into a much more complex and expansive examination of the increasing loss of storytellers in literature. The storyteller belongs to the age of the past when experience informed narrative. The modern world has changed the very dynamics of existence so much that experience has lost meaning. Industrialization has had the effect of removing many daily experiences which used to be common across cultures. In addition, the horrific machine of industrialization has created experiences which writers don’t want to revisit. Predicting the rise of the information age, Benjamin also theorizes that the myth and legend of storytelling is too subject to investigation and explain of factual foundations.Contemplation of Barbara Hepworth's"Two Turning Forms" moved to London for exhibition. Typically housed in Yorkshire. Made in the Artist's studio, St. Ives. Photograph by Ellen Vrana. Scannell, Paddy. (2003) "Benjamin Contextualized: On 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'" in Canonic Texts in Media Research: Are There Any? Should There Be? How About These?, Katz et al. (Eds.) Polity Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780745629346. pp. 74–89. Tobias Robert Klein (ed.), Klang und Musik bei Walter Benjamin, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2013, 224 pp. [68] (German) Grey Room 39: "Walter Benjamin's Media Tactics: Optics, Perception, and the Work of Art", Spring 2010. [77] (English)