Reflections, Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings (Walter Benjamin)

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Reflections
Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

Walter Benjamin

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

Walter Benjamin

Benjamin’s famous “Work of Art” essay sets out his boldest thoughts—on media and on culture in general—in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the...

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...

Berlin Childhood around 1900

Walter Benjamin

Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form...