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  • Charles Baudelaire

    A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    A classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire's life and workWalter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history.Yet it was through his study of the social and cultural history of the late nineteenth-century Paris, examined ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Walter Benjamin

    The Story of a Friendship

    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    by Gershom Scholem ...
    Gershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century’s most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition; Walter Benjamin, as a master thinker whose extraordinary essays mix the revolutionary, the revelatory, and the esoteric. Scholem was a precocious teenager when he met Benjamin, who became his close friend and intellectual mentor. His account of that relationship—which was to remain ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Germany? Germany!: Satirical Writings

    The Kurt Tucholsky Reader

    by Kurt Tucholsky ...
    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    Series Book 3 - Tucholsky in Translation
    Kurt Tucholsky is one of Weimar Germany's most celebrated literary figures, loved by his many readers and hated by the Nazis. The poet, journalist, and satirist who was at the center of the tumultuous political and cultural world of 1920s Berlin still emerges as an astonishingly contemporary figure. But he was more than just an angry truth-teller; he was also one of the funniest satirical writers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Illuminations

    Essays and Reflections

    by Walter Benjamin, Alison Belle Bews ...
    Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    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 theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” an ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

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  • People in Auschwitz

    by Hermann Langbein ...
    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    Hermann Langbein was allowed to know and see extraordinary things forbidden to other Auschwitz inmates. Interned at Auschwitz in 1942 and classified as a non-Jewish political prisoner, he was assigned as clerk to the chief SS physician of the extermination camp complex, which gave him access to documents, conversations, and actions that would have remained unknown to history were it not for his ... Read more

    $18.99 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