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able in English. Harvard University Press is now
taking to publish a significant portion of his work in
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will at last give readers of English a true sense of th
man and the many facets of his thought. A separate vol
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magnum opus of his Paris years
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on collision of an idealistic youth movement and the
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scarred yet determined “to be considered as the princi
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to effect radical change. This book offers the record of
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“One-Way Street,” one of the most significant products
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of the German avant-garde of the Twenties. Against
conformism, homogeneity, and gentrification of all life
into a new world order, Benjamin made the word his
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sixths of this material has never before been translated
into English. The contents begin in 1913, when
Benjamin, as an undergraduate in imperial Germany,
was president of a radical youth group, and take us
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2 critical voice in Weimar Germany’s most influential
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SELECTED WRITINGS
VOLUME 1
1913-1926
Edited by Marcus Bullock
and Michael W. Jennings
THE BELKNAP PRESS OF
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England