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Le rêve et son interprétation, tel aurait pu être, s'il n'était déjà fameux, le titre du présent volume. Le rêve, parce que, dans une première partie, est rassemblée l'intégralité, pour autant qu'on puisse l'assumer, des récits que Benjamin a laissés de ses propres rêves, classés chronologiquement, ainsi que des textes inédits retrouvés dans ses manuscrits. L'interprétation, parce qu'on trouvera, dans la seconde partie, les réflexions théoriques sur le rêve que Benjamin a menées tout au long de son oeuvre, et qui vont de brefs aphorismes à l'analyse politique du "rêve collectif" dont il est nécessaire de réveiller l'humanité, en passant par de longues et riches analyses de la littérature onirique. Apparaît ainsi tout un pan de l'oeuvre de Benjamin qui a pu passer relativement inaperçu jusqu'à présent, mais qui a pourtant une importance centrale dans sa pensée et son écriture.

167 pages, Paperback

First published September 22, 2008

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Walter Benjamin

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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, Jewish mysticism, and neo-Kantianism, Benjamin made influential contributions to aesthetic theory, literary criticism, and historical materialism. He was associated with the Frankfurt School and also maintained formative friendships with thinkers such as playwright Bertolt Brecht and Kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem. He was related to German political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt through her first marriage to Benjamin's cousin Günther Anders, though the friendship between Arendt and Benjamin outlasted her marriage to Anders. Both Arendt and Anders were students of Martin Heidegger, whom Benjamin considered a nemesis.
Among Benjamin's best known works are the essays "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935) and "Theses on the Philosophy of History" (1940). His major work as a literary critic included essays on Charles Baudelaire, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Franz Kafka, Karl Kraus, Nikolai Leskov, Marcel Proust, Robert Walser, Trauerspiel and translation theory. He also made major translations into German of the Tableaux Parisiens section of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal and parts of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.
Of the hidden principle organizing Walter Benjamin's thought Scholem wrote unequivocally that "Benjamin was a philosopher", while his younger colleagues Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno contend that he was "not a philosopher". Scholem remarked "The peculiar aura of authority emanating from his work tended to incite contradiction". Benjamin himself considered his research to be theological, though he eschewed all recourse to traditionally metaphysical sources of transcendentally revealed authority.
In 1940, at the age of 48, Benjamin died by suicide at Portbou on the French Spanish border while attempting to escape the advance of the Third Reich. Though popular acclaim eluded him during his life, the decades following his death won his work posthumous renown.

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April 10, 2023
Die Sprache des Traumes liegt nicht in Worten, sondern unter ihnen. Die Worte sind im Traum Zufallsprodukte des Sinns, welcher in der wortlosen Kontinuität eines Flusses liegt. Der Sinn ist in der Traumsprache versteckt nach Art einer Figur in einem Vexierbild. Es ist sogar möglich, daß der Ursprung der Vexierbilder in solcher Richtung zu suchen ist, sozusagen als Traumstenogramm.
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November 19, 2025
este libro tiene tanto sueños como teorías sobre ellos, o fragmentos de esas teorías desarrolladas con mayor profundidad y extensión en otros libros. no se si fue la edición o mi inconsistencia pero la lectura me costó. me parece q este es uno de esos libros en q uno quiero leer bien sabiendo que ya lo leyó mal. eso quizás habla de la inadecuación del momento de lectura. como sea, me ha encantado leer a benjamin. este libro en particular tiene textos o fragmentos de texto con un tratamiento literario muy lindo. no se si entendí los sueños. a veces me compliqué tratando de entenderlos. pero estaban lindos
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July 24, 2023
muy buena seleccion d textos ha sido bastante disfrutable
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