The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
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The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

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  2. English
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The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

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Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts—on media and on culture in general. This book contains the second, and most daring, of the four versions of the "Work of Art" essay—the one that addresses the utopian developments of the modern media.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780674024458
9780674049932
eBook ISBN
9780674269286
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art Theory & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts
  6. Translator’s Introduction
  7. Chapter 1. The Poet (1910)
  8. Chapter 2. At Night: Thoughts Suggested by a Schumann Composition (1910)
  9. Chapter 3. The Three Who Sought Religion (1910)
  10. Chapter 4. Storm (1910)
  11. Chapter 5. Spring’s Hideaway (1910)
  12. Chapter 6. Sleeping Beauty (1911)
  13. Chapter 7. Diary, Pentecost 1911
  14. Chapter 8. The Free School Community (1911)
  15. Chapter 9. The Pan of Evening (ca. 1911)
  16. Chapter 10. Curriculum Vitae (1911)
  17. Chapter 11. Epilogue (1912)
  18. Chapter 12. School Reform: A Cultural Movement (1912)
  19. Chapter 13. Dialogue on the Religiosity of the Present (1912)
  20. Chapter 14. Quiet Story (ca. 1912)
  21. Chapter 15. Estranged Land (1913)
  22. Chapter 16. Teaching and Valuation (1913)
  23. Chapter 17. Romanticism: An Undelivered Address to Students (1913)
  24. Chapter 18. Moral Education (1913)
  25. Chapter 19. “Experience” (1913)
  26. Chapter 20. Thoughts on Gerhart Hauptmann’s Festival Play (1913)
  27. Chapter 21. The Aviator (ca. 1913)
  28. Chapter 22. Death of the Father: A Short Story (1913)
  29. Chapter 23. Romanticism: Reply of the “Unsanctified” (1913)
  30. Chapter 24. Youth Was Silent (1913)
  31. Chapter 25. Conversation on Love (ca. 1913)
  32. Chapter 26. The Metaphysics of Youth (1913–1914)
  33. Chapter 27. Student Authors’ Evenings (1913–1914)
  34. Chapter 28. Erotic Education (1913–1914)
  35. Chapter 29. The Religious Position of the New Youth (1914)
  36. Chapter 30. Two Poems by Friedrich Hölderlin:“The Poet’s Courage” and “Timidity” (1914–1915)
  37. Chapter 31. The Life of Students (1914–1915)
  38. Chapter 32. A Child’s View of Color (1914–1915)
  39. Chapter 33. The Rainbow: A Conversation about Imagination (ca. 1915)
  40. Chapter 34. The Rainbow, or The Art of Paradise (ca. 1915)
  41. Chapter 35. The Happiness of Ancient Man (1916)
  42. Chapter 36. Socrates (1916)
  43. Chapter 37. On the Middle Ages (1916)
  44. Chapter 38. Trauerspiel and Tragedy (1916)
  45. Chapter 39. The Role of Language in Trauerspiel and Tragedy (1916)
  46. Chapter 40. On Language as Such and on the Language of Man (1916)
  47. Chapter 41. Aphorisms (ca. 1916–1917)
  48. Chapter 42. Balzac (ca. 1916–1917)
  49. Chapter 43. Dostoevsky’s The Idiot (1917)
  50. Chapter 44. On Seeing the Morning Light (1917)
  51. Chapter 45. The Centaur (1917)
  52. Credits
  53. Index

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