Illuminations
The essays that carried Benjamin into English, including The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
The essays that carried Benjamin into English, selected by Hannah Arendt, whose introduction is itself famous. They include The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, The Task of the Translator, Unpacking My Library, and the Theses on the Philosophy of History written shortly before his death in 1940.
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Edmund de Waal
Another of his books, Passagenwerk [The Arcades Project], is the greatest book about Paris in the 19th century that there is. But he’s also completely brilliant on toys, on photographs and on books. What I absolutely love about him is the feeling of someone who cares about the world of things, and how things work with people – but he’s also a philosopher, which is very unusual.
Interview · May 2012
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