{"product_id":"illuminations-essays-and-reflections-9781328470232","title":"Illuminations: Essays and Reflections","description":"\"There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time.\" -- George Steiner \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 on Brecht's epic theater. \u003ci\u003eIlluminations\u003c\/i\u003e also includes his penetrating study \"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,\" an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his theses on the philosophy of history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in a dark historical era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781328470232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Walter Benjamin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648984477852,"sku":"9781328470232","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4afd435d-7eb3-41dd-bf32-ca901cceeef2.jpg?v=1603871655","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/illuminations-essays-and-reflections-9781328470232","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}