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  • Reflections

    Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    The towering twentieth century thinker delve into literature, philosophy, and his own life experience in this "extraordinary collection" ( Publishers Weekly).A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Berlin Childhood around 1900

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen ...
    An elegant new translation of Benjamin’s moving evocation of the experiences of his urban childhoodComposed in exile in the 1930s and published as a whole only after his death, the miniatures that make up Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood are crystallized images of childhood experienced in a city later surrendered to fascism. No ordinary autobiography, the book is a Proustian experiment in memory and a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • One-Way Street

    And Other Writings

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Translated by Kingsley Shorter, Edmund Jephcott F.N. ...
    A classic collection of Walter Benjamin's essays, including some of his most celebrated writingWalter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions.This collection, introduced by Susan Sontag, contains ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ecology of Desert Systems

    by Walter G. Whitford, Benjamin D. Duval ...
    Nearly one-third of the land area on our planet is classified as arid or desert. Therefore, an understanding of the dynamics of such arid ecosystems is essential to managing those systems in a way that sustains human populations. This second edition of Ecology of Desert Systems provides a clear, extensive guide to the complex interactions involved in these areas. This book details the ... Read more

    $130.99 USD

  • Illuminations

    Essays and Reflections

    by Walter Benjamin, Leon Wieseltier ...
    Translated by Henry Zohn ...
    Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Storyteller Essays

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Translated by Tess Lewis ...
    A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work.“The Storyteller” is one of Walter Benjamin’s most important essays, a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Unpacking My Library

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    Series series ERIS gems
    “I fully realize that my discussion of the mental climate of collecting will confirm many of you in your conviction that this passion is behind the times, in your distrust of the collector type. Nothing is further from my mind than to shake either your conviction or your distrust.”Walter Benjamin was one of the great cultural critics of the twentieth century. In Unpacking My Library he offers a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Millionaire in 365 Days

    Achieving Financial Independence with 500€

    by Benjamin Walter ...
    This brief guide is intended for any currency, including US Dollars, worldwide, as the global financial market operates similarly. I haven't written this book just to impart theoretical knowledge, but also to inspire and motivate you. I want to show you that financial independence is not a utopian idea but can be quite achievable—even if you start with a relatively modest amount of €500. In this ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • My healing Journey from Acne Inversa & severe Depression naturally

    The Solution "is in" the Intestine!

    by Benjamin Walter ...
    Hello, my name is Benjamin, and my journey of suffering began in 1996 at the age of 16 when I woke up one morning and felt a strong pain on the inside of my left buttock. Not fully awake yet, I discovered a horrific sight in the mirror as I tried to understand the cause of this pain. It was an elongated, roughly cucumber-shaped, and large abscess that caused such a painful inflammation that I ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • One-Way Street

    by Walter Benjamin, Greil Marcus ...
    Translated by Edmund Jephcott ...
    One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature—by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Walking in Berlin

    A Flaneur in the Capital

    by Franz Hessel ...
    Translated by Amanda DeMarco ...
    The first English translation of a lost classic that reinvents the flaneur in Berlin.Franz Hessel (1880–1941), a German-born writer, grew up in Berlin, studied in Munich, and then lived in Paris, where he moved in artistic and literary circles. His relationship with the fashion journalist Helen Grund was the inspiration for Henri-Pierre Roche's novel Jules et Jim (made into a celebrated 1962 film ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Origin of the German Trauerspiel

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Translated by Howard Eiland ...
    Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin’s first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as “The Origin of German Tragic Drama,” but in fact the subject is something else—the play of mourning. Howard Eiland’s completely new English translation, the first since 1977, is closer to the German text and more consistent with Benjamin’s philosophical ... Read more

    $15.99 USD