One-Way Street

And Other Writings

Walter Benjamin, Amit Chaudhuri, J. A. Underwood

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Penguin
01 December 2009

Diaries, letters & journals; Philosophy

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

Introduction by Amit Chaudhuri; translated by J.A. Underwood

Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including 'One-Way Street', his dreamlike, aphoristic observations of urban life in Weimar Germany; 'Unpacking My Library', a delightful meditation on book-collecting; the confessional 'Hashish in Marseille'; and 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', his seminal essay on how technology changes the way we appreciate art. Also including writings on subjects ranging from Proust to Kafka, violence to surrealism, this is the essential volume on one of the most prescient critical voices of the modern age.

Contains- 'Unpacking My Library'; 'One-Way Street'; 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'; 'Brief History of Photography'; 'Hashish in Marseille'; 'On the Critique of Violence'; 'The Job of the Translator'; 'Surrealism'; 'Franz Kafka' and 'Picturing Proust'.

By: Walter Benjamin
Introduction by: Amit Chaudhuri
Translated by: J. A. Underwood
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 224g
ISBN: 9780141189475
ISBN 10: 0141189479
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 December 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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Walter Benjamin was born on July 15, 1892 to a German-Jewish family in Berlin. He was educated at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg and the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. An essay on Goethe's Elective Affinities published in 1924 earned him swift recognition but he struggled to find a position to support himself and build on its success. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Benjamin fled to Paris and became a prominent critic of Hitler's regime. During this period he worked on his immense study of 19th century Parisian life known as The Arcades Project (which was posthumously published in unfinished form).Following the Nazi invasion of France Benjamin attempted to escape to the United States where a visa had been obtained for him.Trying to get through to neutral Portugal, Benjamin was prevented from crossing the Spanish border and committed suicide on September 27 1940. Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, poet, critic and musician.

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A laboratory manual compiling methods for monitoring protein expression in all the major in vivo and in vitro eukaryotic systems, including cultured mammalian cells, yeasts, vaculovirus, and Xenopus oocytes and also in prokaryotes in cell-free systems that allow coupled transcription-translation. The step-by-step protocols have been prepared by experienced researchers for graduate students, beginning researchers, and senior scientists. --SciTech Book News<br>