One-way street

Author: Walter Benjamin
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: This book is one of Benjamin's renowned works, a collection of images. These images are real objects from the era in which he lived, such as stamps, gas stations, breakfast rooms, Chinese antiques, gloves, clocks, construction sites, posters, beer halls, and so on—of course, including dreams. Benjamin's approach to these objects is not to find a pile of concepts to support them, but to delve directly into the objects themselves, uncovering the hidden currents of culture and the deep undercurrents of human sensibility and reason. The objects that Benjamin focused on have long passed with time, but his ideas remain fresh and continue to exert a profound influence on the academic and intellectual circles of the modern world.