Walter Benjamin

Le liriche appassionate e intense, tese a trovare segrete corrispondenze con il mondo della natura, nell'affascinante capolavoro di Baudelaire (1821-67). Un'inconsueta alleanza tra prosa nuda e poesia pura in un'opera serrata e provocatoria che, come scrisse Hugo, "risplende e abbaglia come una stella".

Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', ‘The Task of the Translator’ and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as essays on Kafka, storytelling, …

The Origin of German Tragic Drama or Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels was the postdoctoral major academic work submitted by Walter Benjamin to the University of Frankfurt in 1925, and not published until 1928. The book is a study of German drama during the baroque period and was meant to earn Benjamin the …