Radio Benjamin

Radio Benjamin - Walter Benjamin - Akal
Publisher name: 
Akal
Year of publication: 
2015
Pages: 
408
Book size:
17x24cm
Weight: 725.8 g
Binding: 
Rustic

Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technologies on culture, an interest that extended beyond his critical essays. From 1927 to 1933 he wrote and presented around eighty works for the new radio environment.

Radio Benjamin brings together the preserved transcripts of these works. This eclectic collection shows the thematic variety of Benjamin's thinking and the thinker's enthusiasm for popular sensibility. His famous “Illustration for Children” programs and his comedies, readings, book reviews and fiction shows us a Benjamin more creative than critical. These works give rise to ideas developed in his essays, some of which are also represented there where they deal with such disparate topics as salary increases or stories of natural disasters, topics chosen for their interest to the general public and examined with passion and sharpness.

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Book: Radio Benjamin

ISBN: 9788446042440
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