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One-way street / Walter Ben...
"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, writing in a vein that anticipates later masterpieces such as 'On the Concept of History' and The Arcades Project. Composed of sixty short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and theme, One-Way Street evokes a dense cityscape of shops, cafes, and apartments, alive with the hubbub of social interactions and papered over with public inscriptions of all kinds: advertisements, signs, posters, slogans. Benjamin avoids all semblance of linear narrative, presenting readers with a seemingly random sequence of aphorisms, reminiscences, jokes, off-the-cuff observations, dreamlike fantasias, serious philosophical inquiries, apparently unserious philosophical parodies, and trenchant political commentaries. Providing remarkable insight into the occluded meanings of everyday things, Benjamin time and again proves himself the unrivalled interpreter of what he called 'the soul of the commodity.' Despite the diversity of its individual sections, Benjamin's text is far from formless. Drawing on the avant-garde aesthetics of Dada, Constructivism, and Surrealism, its unusual construction implies a practice of reading that cannot be reduced to simple formulas. Still refractory, still radical, One-Way Street is a work in perpetual progress."--Provided by publisher
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monografia Rebiun39436269 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun39436269 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 160422t20162016mau ob 001 0 eng d 960895272 961006608 961151629 961307573 962048807 962434620 962813836 965431222 984637444 1175643493 9780674545908 electronic book) 0674545907 electronic book) 9780674052291 paperback) 0674052293 paperback) AU@ 000062362143 22573/ctvjj2bx5 JSTOR N$T eng rda pn N$T YDXCP EBLCP OCL DEGRU UUM YDX OCLCA OCLCQ NRC JSTOR OCLCQ UKAHL UX1 WAU OCLCO INTCL WAU OCLCO YUS OCLCO OCL OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCL CUV OCLCA OCLCQ UKKRT OCLCL eng ger LIT 004170 bisacsh LIT 006000 bisacsh PHI 001000 bisacsh 838/.91209 23 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ddc/E3379mkv6k4GHVt9MgK7KmFQdQ I516.65 clc 830 DE-101 sdnb Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940) author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqK9JfMk9whq3D8rr3bBP Einbahnstrasse. English One-way street Walter Benjamin ; translated by Edmund Jephcott ; edited and with an introduction by Michael W. Jennings ; preface by Greil Marcus Cambridge, Massachusetts Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2016 Cambridge, Massachusetts Cambridge, Massachusetts Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2016 1 online resource (xxv, 105 pages) 1 online resource (xxv, 105 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file rdaft "One-Way Street originally appeared in English in Reflections by Walter Benjamin." Translated from the German Includes bibliographical references and index Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- One-Way Street -- Notes -- Index "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, writing in a vein that anticipates later masterpieces such as 'On the Concept of History' and The Arcades Project. Composed of sixty short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and theme, One-Way Street evokes a dense cityscape of shops, cafes, and apartments, alive with the hubbub of social interactions and papered over with public inscriptions of all kinds: advertisements, signs, posters, slogans. Benjamin avoids all semblance of linear narrative, presenting readers with a seemingly random sequence of aphorisms, reminiscences, jokes, off-the-cuff observations, dreamlike fantasias, serious philosophical inquiries, apparently unserious philosophical parodies, and trenchant political commentaries. Providing remarkable insight into the occluded meanings of everyday things, Benjamin time and again proves himself the unrivalled interpreter of what he called 'the soul of the commodity.' Despite the diversity of its individual sections, Benjamin's text is far from formless. Drawing on the avant-garde aesthetics of Dada, Constructivism, and Surrealism, its unusual construction implies a practice of reading that cannot be reduced to simple formulas. Still refractory, still radical, One-Way Street is a work in perpetual progress."--Provided by publisher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis. Michael W. Jennings is Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages at Princeton University. Greil Marcus is the author of The Doors, Mystery Train, and other books Aphorisms and apothegms Epigrams Philosophy, German- 20th century Aphorisms and Proverbs as Topic Aphorismes et apophtegmes Épigrammes Philosophie allemande- 20e siècle aphorisms. epigrams. LITERARY CRITICISM- European- German. LITERARY CRITICISM- Semiotics & Theory. Máximas y aforismos. Epigramas. Filosofía- Alemania- S.XX. Aphorisms and apothegms. Epigrams. Philosophy, German. Aphorisms and Proverbs epigrams. Sayings. Epigrams. Sayings. Epigrams. Proverbes. Épigrammes. Jephcott, E. F. N. translator. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjwcpxfHpCgv6hVDW3cfD3 Jennings, Michael William editor writer of introduction Marcus, Greil writer of preface. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJk93qMdm3vXV833xy6VG3 Print version Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. Einbahnstrasse. English. One-way street. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016 9780674052291 (DLC) 2015039382 (OCoLC)926061415 Contained in (work) Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. Works. Selections. English. 1978. Reflections. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978 0156762455 (DLC) 78023499 (OCoLC)4493953