Radio Benjamin Benjamin Walter
Radio Benjamin Benjamin Walter Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. Radio Benjamin gathers the…
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Radio Benjamin Benjamin Walter
Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. Radio Benjamin gathers the surviving transcripts, which appear here for the first time in English. From 1927 to '33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of radio.
His celebrated "Enlightenment for Children" youth programs, his plays, readings, book reviews, and fiction reveal Benjamin in a creative, rather than critical, mode. This eclectic collection demonstrates the range of Benjamin's thinking and his enthusiasm for popular sensibilities. They flesh out ideas elucidated in his essays, some of which are also represented here, where they cover topics as varied as getting a raise and the history of natural disasters, subjects chosen for broad appeal and examined with passion and