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Berlin Childhood circa 1900: By Walter Benjamin

This fresh translation by Carl Skoggard of philosopher Walter Benjamin's (1892-1940) engaging memoir remains faithful to the author's voice. Readers are offered glimpses of an anonymous Berlin childhood which might have been Benjamin's own, with recollections of an affluent Jewish home in Berlin's W...

Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life

Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings--mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis, and a syncretistic theology--defy simple categorization. And his mobile, often improvised existence ...

Sonnets: By Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin's sonnets, written to mourn his friend Fritz Heinle, constitute an important though little-known part of the philosopher's literary achievement and a unique contribution to the history of the German sonnet. Benjamin would add to their number over a decade, having begun his project so...

Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs

An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin’s personal manuscripts, images, and documents The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dream...

Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2: Part 2: 1931-1934

In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings is now available in paperbac...

Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1: 1913-1926

Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of his work in definitive translation, under the ...

The Arcades Project

"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ...

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater. Also included are his penetra...

Growing Metropolis: Aspects of Development in Nashville

Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Schnflies Benjamin (German: [valt bnjamin]; 15 July 1892 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher and cultural critic .

Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Schnflies Benjamin 2] was a German-Jewish intellectual, who functioned variously as a literary critic, philosopher, sociologist, translator, ...

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducti ...

... essay by German cultural critic Walter Benjamin, which has been ...