具体描述
One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature--by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, writing in a vein that anticipates later masterpieces such as "On the Concept of History" and The Arcades Project.
Composed of sixty short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and theme, One-Way Street evokes a dense cityscape of shops, cafes, and apartments, alive with the hubbub of social interactions and papered over with public inscriptions of all kinds: advertisements, signs, posters, slogans. Benjamin avoids all semblance of linear narrative, enticing readers with a seemingly random sequence of aphorisms, reminiscences, jokes, off-the-cuff observations, dreamlike fantasias, serious philosophical inquiries, apparently unserious philosophical parodies, and trenchant political commentaries. Providing remarkable insight into the occluded meanings of everyday things, Benjamin time and again proves himself the unrivalled interpreter of what he called "the soul of the commodity."
Despite the diversity of its individual sections, Benjamin's text is far from formless. Drawing on the avant-garde aesthetics of Dada, Constructivism, and Surrealism, its unusual construction implies a practice of reading that cannot be reduced to simple formulas. Still refractory, still radical, One-Way Street is a work in perpetual progress.
作者简介
Michael W. Jennings is Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages at Princeton University.
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读后感
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评分太可怕了。 没读过他的论文而直接读这个，宛如通过《引诱者手记》去观察克尔凯郭尔，对于本雅明的思想得到的将会是相当错误的结论。 不过大多数人其实并不在乎这个……我是说，他们无所谓自己读到的是否真实。
评分 评分“一个男人要走过多少条路，你才可以称他为男人……”。对于一个一生都在漂泊和颠沛流离中度过的人来说，瓦尔特·本雅明无疑走过很多条路。他几乎遍及欧洲的足迹，使他成为一个标准的上路者，一个孤独的体验者。他用自己的脆弱和敏感体验了欧洲大陆，体验了生活，当然也体...
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用户评价
说实在的，看得很没耐心。有喜欢的地方，但整体不是我的菜
评分说实在的，看得很没耐心。有喜欢的地方，但整体不是我的菜
评分with C. Davidson
评分with C. Davidson
评分读得非常艰难，有时候一句话要差不多来回看三遍才只能理解句面意思。不过和有趣的思想过招非常过瘾，虽然身陷碎片化的符号和梦境的密林，毫无还手之力。。anyway，要开始读Adorno的minima moralia了！
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