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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings: V. 4: 1938-1940

Walter Benjamin

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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings: V. 4: 1938-1940

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Working at the height of his powers to the very end, Benjamin refined his theory of the mass media that culminated in the final version of his essay The Work of Art in the Ages of its Technological Reproducibility . Also included in this volume is his influential piece On the Concept of History , completed just before his death. The book is remarkable for its inquiry into the nature of the modern (especially as revealed in Baudelaire), for its ideas about the transmogrification of art and the radical discontinuities of history, and for its examples of humane life and thought in the midst of barbarism. The entire collection is eloquent testimony to the indomitable spirit of humanity under siege.