Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.Shipping and insurance charges are additional. Next-day or second-day air service is available upon request. We ship worldwide and all packages will be sent via UPS or Federal Express unless another carrier is requested. We do ask that if you are not satisfied with the item, you contact us by phone as quickly as possible and return the item within ten days. For first-time buyers, we prefer a credit card and we will only ship to the billing address on the card. We accept MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, checks and wire transfer. For some items, we can also email digital photographs.Īll of our items are guaranteed as described and are shipped on approval. If you are interested in an item from one of our catalogues or our website and would like more information before ordering it, please give us a call one of our salespeople will be happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you might have. Owner signature.īook fine light edge-wear to near-fine dust jacket. With ten essays first appearing in German as follows: Unpacking My Library (1931) The Task of the Translator (1923) The Storyteller (1936) Franz Kafka (1934), Max Brod's Book on Kafka (1938) What is Epic Theater? (1939) On Some Motifs in Baudelaire (1939) The Image of Proust (1929) The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) Theses on the Philosophy of History (1940). The title of Illuminations, "but not the content," is like that of a 1962 selection in German published by Suhrkamp (267). Containing essays included in the 1955 collection in German edited by Theodor Adorno. Translation from the German by Harry Zohn. "First Edition" stated on copyright page. Throughout his work "three concerns are always present… From first to last he was concerned with experience, with historical remembrance, and with art as the privileged medium of both" (Elland, 7). Edited by Hannah Arendt, this volume of ten essays features his writings on Kafka, Brecht, Baudelaire and Proust, and two of his most influential works: Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, which radically transformed our understanding of art, technology and culture, and Philosophy of History, where he wrote, in spring of 1940: "Even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins." Philosophy of History remains "one of the most important philosophical and political texts of the 20th century" (Lowy, 4). His work was nearly forgotten until a 1955 German anthology appeared, but it was not until 1968 that this first collection in English was published. Halted at the Spanish border in September 1940, Benjamin committed suicide. With many in America working to assure his passage to Spain, Benjamin entrusted friends with his "papers most precious… Work of Art in the Art of Mechanical Reproduction… his copy of Philosophy of History" (Elland, Walter Benjamin, 2, 667). "He was not only a surpassing critic and revolutionary theorist: he also left a substantial body of writing on the border between fiction, reportage, cultural analysis and memoir." After fleeing Berlin in 1933 for France, in 1940 he again had to escape the Nazis. "Benjamin occupies a singular, even unique, place in the intellectual and political panorama of the 20th century" (Lowy, Fire Alarm, 1). Octavo, original gray cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition of the first collection in English of works by Benjamin, published two decades after he committed suicide to avoid capture by the Gestapo, edited by Hannah Arendt with her introduction and featuring ten key essays, including the pivotal Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and Theses on the Philosophy of History, "one of the most important philosophical and political texts of the 20th century." Edited and with an introduction by Hannah Arendt. "EVEN THE DEAD WILL NOT BE SAFE FROM THE ENEMY IF HE WINS": FIRST EDITION OF ILLUMINATIONS, THE FIRST COLLECTION IN ENGLISH OF WORKS BY WALTER BENJAMINīENJAMIN, Walter.
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