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.
Michael W. Jennings is Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages at Princeton University.
我们为什么要深沉的智慧?为的是把周围的一切看清楚,却不说出来,继续观赏的乐趣,也避免上帝发笑。在聪明的回廊里,我喜欢多转几个圈。
評分我们为什么要深沉的智慧?为的是把周围的一切看清楚,却不说出来,继续观赏的乐趣,也避免上帝发笑。在聪明的回廊里,我喜欢多转几个圈。
評分早餐室 有一个民间传说,它告诚人们,不要在早晨空腹说梦。梦醒的人在空腹状态下,其实还在梦的魔力范围内,迟迟没有出来。因为洗漱不过是唤醒了人的体表,把可见的运动机能召唤至明亮的日光下,而在更深的层次,那朦胧的幽黯梦景即使在晨浴时仍不肯消散。是的,它牢牢黏附在人初醒时分...
評分稀里糊涂之间走进了Benjamin的单行道,因为一个知名书店的名字。 书的封面还看得过去,有时候照片远比那些彩色的几何图形出彩,它所包含的丰富的信息是那些简单抽象的几何图形所不能替代的。封底关于书籍和妓女的类比确实很精彩,但是否不太大众?不不是每个人都喜欢这种下半...
評分太可怕了。 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。
with C. Davidson
评分如何在晚期資本主義社會中對商品拜物教進行祛魅?物化(reification)是一種意識形態,是一種通過“現實”來嵌入人心(innervation)的夢境,本雅明的方法是透過對巴黎日常經驗客體(object)的碎片化、非自洽的反思,來讓那個以永恒缺席來在場的意識形態顯形,重新呈現物化意識形態(尤其體現在無所不在的廣告中)如何和各種其他夢境(宗教、政治烏托邦、愛情)辯證交織,正因此,保持距離感的、帶立場和角度的批評(criticism)成為不可能。超現實主義(想象)因而成為本雅明的寫作工具,但因其混淆夢境和生活,也是他批評和超越(變革與破壞)的對象。在他筆下,現代主體(默認為男性)要麼沉浸在私人的夢境中,要麼被外界客體擊碎,主客體接觸因而隻有兩種可能:失敗或暴力,但正是這兩者中潛藏著變革的可能。
评分with C. Davidson
评分說實在的,看得很沒耐心。有喜歡的地方,但整體不是我的菜
评分說實在的,看得很沒耐心。有喜歡的地方,但整體不是我的菜
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