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Author Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940, author.

Title One-way street / Walter Benjamin ; translated by Edmund Jephcott ; edited and with an introduction by Michael W. Jennings.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource
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Physical Medium polychrome
Note "One-Way Street¿ originally appeared in English in Reflections by Walter Benjamin."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "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.
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- One-Way Street -- Notes -- Index.
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Language Translated from the German.
Subject Aphorisms and apothegms.
Aphorisms and apothegms.
Epigrams.
Epigrams.
Philosophy, German -- 20th century.
Philosophy, German.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Jephcott, E. F. N., translator.
Jennings, Michael William, editor, writer of introduction.
Marcus, Greil, writer of preface.
Added Title Einbahnstrasse. English
Other Form: 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
Related To Contained in (work): Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. Works. Selections. English. 1978. Reflections. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1978 0156762455 (DLC) 78023499 (OCoLC)4493953
ISBN 9780674545908 (electronic book)
0674545907 (electronic book)
9780674052291
0674052293