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In the final years of the Weimar Republic, Benjamin emerged as the most original public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Here, Benjamin is r...
And Other Writings
A classic collection of Walter Benjamin's essays, including some of his most celebrated writing Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and eni...
A Biography
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Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to...
Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Benjamin's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the...
Images, Texts, Signs
The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commen...
Called “the most important critic of his time” by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has ...
The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the natu...
Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work o...
On Hashish' is Walter Benjamin's posthumous collection of writings, providing a unique and intimate portrait of the man himself, of his experiences of...
This book of new research and commentary by Carl Skoggard brings philosopher Walter Benjamin's engaging autobiographical text into a new translation t...
The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. This is the first time all of the surviving correspondence between Adorno ...
The legendary correspondence between the critic Walter Benjamin and the historian Gershom Scholem bears indispensable witness to the inner lives of tw...
‘We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon.’ So ...
Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
The towering twentieth century thinker delve into literature, philosophy, and his own life experience in this “extraordinary collection” (Publishe...
Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quota...
An introduction to the writings of Walter Benjamin....
Benjamin's writings on photography includes a new translation of this influential essay as well as a range of other writings, both published and unpub...
A series of influential essays on the visual arts that were made possible by machines, and the implications for the future of culture....
Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, histor...
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audie...
A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism
A classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire's life and work Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentator...
Essays on Charles Baudelaire
"In this book Benjamin reveals Baudelaire as a social poet of the very first rank. More than a series of studies of Baudelaire, these essays show the ...
Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walte...
Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin’s first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as “The...
On The Concept of History is a politics & social sciences essay written by German philosopher and social science critic Walter Benjamin. On The Concep...
Essays and Reflections
"There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time." -- George Steiner Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned...
En 1927, con ocasión de una estancia de varios meses en París, Walter Benjamin comenzó a tomar notas de los Pasajes de París, su más ambicioso pr...
Tales out of Loneliness
A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short stories The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and p...
A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stories,...
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Kracauers Angestellten-Buch ist ein Klassiker der analytisch-dokumentarischen Literatur, der seit seinem Erscheinen (1930) kaum etwas an Aktualität...
Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writing
A companion volume to Illuminations (also available in Schocken paperback), Reflections presents a new sampling of Walter Benjamin's wide-ranging work...
Benjamin’s famous “Work of Art“ essay sets out his boldest thoughts—on media and on culture in general. This book contains the second, and mos...
This volume offers extensively annotated translations of essays that are key to Benjamin's rewriting of the story of modernism and modernity, as well ...
A Critical Edition
Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with...
"I fully realize that my discussion of the mental climate of collecting will confirm many of you in your conviction that this passion is behind the ti...