Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Harry Zohn, Leon Wieseltier, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Harry Zohn, Leon Wieseltier, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt

288 pages first pub 1969 (editions)

nonfiction essays philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced

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Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Pr...

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