Book description
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter
Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means
audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the
troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout
history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the
way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate,
dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked
and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now
Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals
and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we
are. Walter Bendix Sch nflies 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 was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt
Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem.
