IlluminationsA selection of works from one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth centuryas selected by Hannah Arendt and including a classic essay of her own about Walter Benjamins life and philosophy. There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time.George Steiner An icon of criticism, Walter Benjamin was renowned for his insights on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom

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