Radio Benjamin | Agenda Bookshop Skip to content
LAST CHANCE! Order items marked '10-20 working days' TODAY to get them in time for Christmas!
LAST CHANCE! Order items marked '10-20 working days' TODAY to get them in time for Christmas!
A01=Walter Benjamin
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Walter Benjamin
automatic-update
B01=Lecia Rosenthal
B06=Diana Reese
B06=Jonathan Lutes
B06=Lisa Harries Schumann
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=APW
Category=HPCF
Category=HPS
Category=JPFC
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
softlaunch

Radio Benjamin

English

By (author): Walter Benjamin

Translated by: Diana Reese, Jonathan Lutes, Lisa Harries Schumann

Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to '33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers the surviving transcripts, which appear here for the first time in English. This eclectic collection demonstrates the range of Benjamin's thinking and his enthusiasm for popular sensibilities. His celebrated Enlightenment for Children youth programs, his plays, readings, book reviews, and fiction reveal Benjamin in a creative, rather than critical, mode. They flesh out ideas elucidated in his essays, some of which are also represented here, where they cover topics as varied as getting a raise and the history of natural disasters, subjects chosen for broad appeal and examined with passion and acuity.
Delightful and incisive, this is Walter Benjamin channeling his sophisticated thinking to a wide audience, allowing us to benefit from a new voice for one of the twentieth century's most respected thinkers. See more
Current price €17.99
Original price €19.99
Save 10%
A01=Walter BenjaminAge Group_UncategorizedAuthor_Walter Benjaminautomatic-updateB01=Lecia RosenthalB06=Diana ReeseB06=Jonathan LutesB06=Lisa Harries SchumannCategory1=Non-FictionCategory=APWCategory=HPCFCategory=HPSCategory=JPFCCOP=United KingdomDelivery_Delivery within 10-20 working daysLanguage_EnglishPA=AvailablePrice_€10 to €20PS=Activesoftlaunch
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
Product Details
  • Weight: 352g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Nov 2021
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781839764165

About Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic essayist translator and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations The Arcades Project and The Origin of German Tragic Drama. Lecia Rosenthal is the author of Mourning Modernism: Literature Catastrophe and the Politics of Consolation (Fordham University Press 2011). She has taught at Columbia and Tufts. She lives in Los Angeles.

Customer Reviews

No reviews yet
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue we'll assume that you are understand this. Learn more
Accept