Fate and character. Benjamin V.

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) - an outstanding German philosopher, aesthetic, essayist, critic, literature historian and translator, one of the most original cultural theorists of the 20th century; non -academic researcher who had a huge impact on various social and humanitarian sciences; The thinker, whose ideas laid the foundation for a modern understanding of modernism and anticipated a number of key concepts of postmodern theory. The real collection of Benjamin’s works written at different times included the essay “A work of art in the era of its technical reproduction” (1936) is one of the first in the European theory of the culture of reflexions about the influence of new technologies on the essence and social functions of art, leading to the emergence of new aesthetics and new forms of artistic creativity, such as photography and cinema. The book also includes the essay “Fate and character”, “The task of the translator”, “Surrealism”, “To the portrait of Proust”, “Theory of German fascism”, “Brief history of photography”, “On some motives by Baudler”, “On the concept of history "And other iconic for the author’s intellectual biography of texts devoted to the issues of the theory of media and the philosophy of history, the interaction of political and aesthetic, the phenomena of power and violence, the nature of the language and the purpose of translation.