{"id":72,"date":"2006-09-21T22:22:50","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T03:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=72"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:52:14","slug":"illuminations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Illuminations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0805202412\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0805202412&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=readingwith0a-20&#038;linkId=19700498ecc75035fba02cdadc0abd55\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/81zQz-6R0uL._SL1500_-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"236\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/81zQz-6R0uL._SL1500_-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/81zQz-6R0uL._SL1500_-653x1024.jpg 653w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/81zQz-6R0uL._SL1500_-768x1204.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/81zQz-6R0uL._SL1500_.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><b>Walter Benjamin (1969)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. <i>Illuminations<\/i> includes Benjamin&#8217;s views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov and on Brecht&#8217;s Epic Theater. Also included are his penetrating study on &#8220;The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,&#8221; an illuminating discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his thesis on the philosophy of history. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and prefaces them with a substantial, admirably informed introduction that presents Benjamin&#8217;s personality and intellectual development, as well as his work and his life in dark times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Benjamin (1969) Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin&#8217;s views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=72\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,8,6,11,5,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-culture","category-history","category-language","category-media","category-philosophy","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}