《本雅明书信集》内容简介
书信集收录德国思想家本雅明信件300多封,由肖勒姆、阿多诺合力编辑,编年编定,加以注释。展现了本雅明渊博的知识和独特的文笔,揭示了思想轨迹的发展变化,提供了和他所处时代的思想家及各类人物的关系,对于理解20世纪前半期欧洲文化和思想人物有特殊的参考价值。
在这本书信集中,本雅明谈到了文学、思潮、创作、社交、旅行、工作和生活,对卡夫卡的反思贯穿了这本书;20世纪最重要的一批思想家如:格哈德·肖勒姆、特奥多·阿多诺、汉娜·阿伦特、贝托尔特·布莱希特、雷纳·玛丽亚·里尔克、恩斯特·布洛赫、卡尔·克劳斯、马丁·布伯悉数登场。新一代的读者可以从中了解德国犹太知识分子的消失的世界。
作者简介
作者|瓦尔特·本雅明(WalterBenjamin,1892—1940),犹太人,德国文学家、思想家,因其博学和敏锐而享誉世界,被视为20世纪前半期德国最重要的文学评论家,被誉为“欧洲最后一位知识分子”。他学术视野开阔,学术眼光独到,著作宏富,著有《德意志悲苦剧的起源》《德国浪漫派的艺术批评概念》《可技术复制时代的艺术作品》《评歌德的<亲和力>》《摄影小史》《柏林童年》《德意志人》等名著,尚留下六册书信集。作为众所周知的思想家,其论著丰富的解释力吸引越来越多学者的目光,俨然成为重审现代性与欧洲文化史的关键节点。
译者|金晓宇,1972年生于天津,自由译者,所译语种以英语、日语、德语为主,所译图书涉及文学、艺术、音乐、电影、思想学术等类。现居杭州。
A brief introduction to the contents of Benjamin's Letters
The epistle collection contains more than 300 letters of the German thinker Benjamin, edited by Shoreham and Adorno, compiled and annotated. It shows Benjamin's profound knowledge and unique writing style, reveals the development and change of the ideological track, provides the relationship with the thinkers and various figures of his time, and has special reference value for understanding the European culture and ideological figures in the first half of the 20th century.
In this collection of letters, Benjamin talks about literature, thought, creation, society, travel, work and life, and reflections on Kafka run through the book; Some of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, such as Gerhard Shoreham, Teodorno, Hannah Arendt, Bertolt Brecht, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ernst Bloch, Karl Kraus, and Martin Buber, appear. A new generation of readers could learn about the lost world of German Jewish intellectuals.
About the author
The author | WalterBenjamin (1892-1940), a Jewish German writer and thinker, was world-renowned for his erudition and sensitivity. He was regarded as the most important German literary critic in the first half of the 20th century and was known as "the last intellectual in Europe". He has a broad academic vision, unique academic vision, and a wealth of works, including "The origin of German sad Drama", "the concept of German Romantic Art Criticism", "Art works in the era of Technological reproduction", "Comments on Goethe's affinity", "A Brief history of Photography", "Berlin Childhood", "The Germans" and other masterpieces, and still left six volumes of letters. As a well-known thinker, his rich explanatory power attracts the attention of more and more scholars, and seems to be a key node in reexamining modernity and European cultural history.
| Jin Xiaoyu, born in 1972 in Tianjin, is a freelance translator whose translations are mainly English, Japanese and German. His translations include literature, art, music, film and academic works. He lives in Hangzhou.