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The Arcades Project

Walter Benjamin

The Writer of Modern Life
Essays on Charles Baudelaire

Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin's essays on the great French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire revolutionized not just the way we think about Baudelaire, but our understanding of modernity and modernism as well. In these essays, Benjamin challenges the image of...

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...