{"product_id":"storyteller-essays","title":"Storyteller Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin''s work as it pertains to his famous essay, \"The Storyteller,\" this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin''s work.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The Storyteller” is one of Walter Benjamin’s most important essays, a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between narrative form, social life, and individual existence—and the product of at least a decade’s work. What might be called the story of \u003ci\u003eThe Storyteller Essays\u003c\/i\u003e starts in 1926, with a piece Benjamin wrote about the German romantic Johann Peter Hebel. It continues in a series of short essays, book reviews, short stories, parables, and even radio shows for children. This collection brings them all together to give readers a new appreciation of how Benjamin’s thinking changed and ripened over time, while including several key readings of his own—texts by his contemporaries Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács; by Paul Valéry; and by Herodotus and Montaigne. Finally, to bring things around, there are three short stories by “the incomparable Hebel” with whom the whole intellectual adventure began.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57317240570238,"sku":"NW9781681370583","price":13.03,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781681370583.jpg?v=1778694777","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/storyteller-essays","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}