Radio Benjamin / edited by Lecia Rosenthal ; translated by Jonathan Lutes with Lisa Harries Schumann and Diana K. Reese.

By:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940

Contributor(s):

Rosenthal, Lecia [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2014Description: xxix, 394 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9781781685754 (hardback)

Subject(s):

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Translations into English

DDC classification:

838.91209 BEN

Online resources:

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Summary: "From 1927 to 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and presented more than eighty broadcasts over the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers, for the first time in English, the surviving transcripts. This eclectic collection shows the range of Benjamin's thinking and includes stories for young and old, plays, readings, book reviews, a novella, and discussions of topics ranging from finding a job to the architecture of Berlin to an account of the railway disaster at the Firth of Tay. Delightful and incisive, this is Walter Benjamin directing his sophisticated thinking to a mass audience"-- Provided by publisher.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	838.91209 BEN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K2094

Gratis

"Translations in this volume are based on Benjamin's radio typescripts as published and edited in the Gesammelte Schriften."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"From 1927 to 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and presented more than eighty broadcasts over the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers, for the first time in English, the surviving transcripts. This eclectic collection shows the range of Benjamin's thinking and includes stories for young and old, plays, readings, book reviews, a novella, and discussions of topics ranging from finding a job to the architecture of Berlin to an account of the railway disaster at the Firth of Tay. Delightful and incisive, this is Walter Benjamin directing his sophisticated thinking to a mass audience"-- Provided by publisher.

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