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Illuminations

by Unknown Author

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288 pages1968Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyISBN 9780547540658
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Fama, that much-coveted goddess, has many faces, and fame comes in many sorts and sizes-from the one-week notoriety of the cover story to the splendor of an everlasting name.

Publication Details

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Published
1968
Pages
288
ISBN
9780547540658

About Unknown Author

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist philosopher-sociologist, literary critic, translator and essayist. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His Marxism was more influenced by Bertolt Brecht, who had developed his own critical aesthetics, which asked for the emotional distancing of the spectator (Verfremdungseffekt). An important earlier influence and friend was Gershom Scholem, who founded the modern, academic study of the Kabbalah and of Jewish mysticism. Over the last half-century the regard for his work and its influence have risen dramatically, making Benjamin one of the most important twentieth century thinkers about literature and about modern aesthetic experience. Source and more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin

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