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Radio Benjamin

Author: Walter Benjamin; Lecia Rosenthal
Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2014.
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"From 1927 to 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and presented more than eighty broadcasts over the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers, for the first time in English, the surviving transcripts. This eclectic collection shows the range of Benjamin's thinking and includes stories for young and old, plays, readings, book reviews, a novella, and discussions of topics ranging from finding a job to the architecture of  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Translations
Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945
Translations into English
Named Person: Walter Benjamin; Walter Benjamin; Walter Benjamin
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Walter Benjamin; Lecia Rosenthal
ISBN: 9781781685754 1781685754
OCLC Number: 868199627
Notes: "Translations in this volume are based on Benjamin's radio typescripts as published and edited in the Gesammelte Schriften."
Description: xxix, 394 pages ; 24 cm
Contents: Youth hour : Radio stories for children --
Radio plays for children --
Radio talks, plays, dialogues, and listening models --
Writings on radio, off air.
Other Titles: Broadcasts.
Responsibility: edited by Lecia Rosenthal ; translated by Jonathan Lutes with Lisa Harries Schumann and Diana K. Reese.
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This collection of the legendary thinker's radio broadcasts brings together some of his most accessible and fascinating thinking.  Read more...

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"Everything which fell under the scrutiny of his words was transformed, as though it had become radioactive." --Theodor Adorno "A complex and brilliant writer." --J.M. Coetzee "Walter Benjamin was Read more...

 
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