by Walter Benjamin · Ediciones Paidós · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475099316
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This selection of writings, translated into Spanish for the first time (except for the article dedicated to the poet Hölderlin), gathers a considerable part of Walter Benjamin's philosophical production during his youth (1912-1916). These texts, selected for their relevance, show in embryonic state many of the philosophical and methodological concerns that would later shape his great works of maturity, such as 'The Origin of German Tragic Drama' and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History'.
By confronting these writings with his later production, a greater theoretical coherence is revealed than is commonly attributed to him. The themes addressed, such as education, religion, ethics, language, love, modern society and its contradictions, socialism and history, connect with current theoretical approaches. This edition includes an introduction written by Ana Lucas, professor of Aesthetics at the UNED of Madrid.
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Jewish mysticism, Western Marxism, and post-Kantianism, he made contributions to the philosophy of history, metaphysics, historical materialism, criticism, and aesthetics, and had an oblique but overwhelmingly influential impact on the resurrection of the Kabbalah by virtue of his life-long epistolary relationship with Gershom Scholem.
