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The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Walter Benjamin
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On Hashish
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin's posthumously published collection of writings on hashish is a detailed blueprint for a book that was never written--a "truly exceptional book about hashish," as Benjamin describes it in a letter to his friend Gershom Scholem. A...
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The Arcades Project
Walter Benjamin
You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades...
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Reflections
Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
Walter Benjamin
A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and...
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