Radio Benjamin
by Walter Benjamin
Buy on AmazonWalter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to '33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers the surviving transcripts, which appear here for the first time in English. This eclectic collection demonstrates the range of Benjamin's thinking and his enthusiasm for popular sensibilities. His celebrated "Enlightenment for Children" youth programs, his plays, readings, book reviews, and fiction reveal Benjamin in a creative, rather than critical, mode.…
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"Those pioneering pieces, at last translated into English and released as Radio Benjamin ( public library | IndieBound ), were notable for many reasons, but perhaps most of all for upholding the idealism and optimism of any young medium."
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