Illuminations - Walter Benjamin Pages:272 pages award-winning New York Times columnist

award-winning New York Times columnist and Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author Carl Zimmer leads us on an odyssey through the living atmosphere and through the history of its discovery

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identity and agency' Nicola Gill

Stewart Brand declared: 'We are as gods - and we might as well get good at it

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Illuminations - Walter Benjamin Pages:272 pages award-winning New York Times columnistIlluminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', `The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as essays on Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, Proust and an anatomy of his own obsession, book collecting. This now legendary volume offers the best