Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Walter Benjamin with Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator), Hannah Arendt (Contributor)

10 hours, 12 minutes first pub 1969 (editions)

nonfiction essays philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced
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Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on B...

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