The publishing house itself notes, regarding the book: “This anthology brings together four essential texts by Walter Benjamin that traverse fifteen years of thought and offer a complete and surprising portrait of his work. Capitalism as Religion is a brief fragment that redefines money and consumption as forms of modern faith. Naples, written with Asja Lācis, is an urban chronicle that turns a city into a laboratory of resistance and collective life. One-Way Street proposes a radically new reading experience with aphorisms, images and philosophical flashes that reproduce the fragmentary rhythm of life in the big city. The Narrator, finally, is a meditation on what is lost when we stop sharing stories from mouth to mouth—and on what that loss says about ourselves.”
Four distinct ways of looking at the world, but in the end these are texts that share one detail: in the small, in the seemingly insignificant —a street, a commodity, a tale— lies the key to understanding how we live and how we could live differently.
The prologue is written by Christo Casas, a journalist, anthropologist and one of the sharpest voices of contemporary dissent in Spain, who finds in Benjamin an unexpected ally for thinking about capitalism, community and life from the margins”.
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Author: Walter Benjamin. Translation: Lara Cortés Fernández. Title: Constellations of the Everyday. Publisher: Paidós. Purchase: Todos tus libros.