Walter Benjamin
Born 15 July 1892 · Died 27 September 1940
From Berlin, Germany · Nationality: Kingdom of Prussia, German Reich · Writes nonfiction
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist philosopher-sociologist, literary critic, translator and essayist. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His Marxism was more influenced by Bertolt Brecht, who had developed his own critical aesthetics, which asked for the emotional distancing of the spectator (Verfremdungseffekt). An important earlier influence and friend was Gershom Scholem, who founded the modern, academic study of the Kabbalah and of Jewish mysticism. Over the last half-century the regard for his work and its influence have risen dramatically, making Benjamin one of the most important twentieth century thinkers about literature and about modern aesthetic experience.
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Books by Walter Benjamin in order
Books by Walter Benjamin in the order they were published, from Selected Writings (2004) to Pequeña historia de la fotografía (2022).
- 1Selected Writings
Selected Writings2004 - 2Berlin Childhood Around 1900
Berlin Childhood Around 19002006 - 3On Hashish
On Hashish2006 - 4Aesthetics and Politics
Aesthetics and Politics2007 - 5Immagini di città
Immagini di città2007 - 6The Archive
The Archive2007 - 7The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibil
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media2008 - 8Unpacking My Library
Unpacking My Library2009 - 9The Storyteller
The Storyteller2016 - 10La obra de arte en la época de su reproductibilidad técnica
La obra de arte en la época de su reproductibilidad técnica2017 - 11The Storyteller Essays
The Storyteller Essays2019 - 12Radio BenjaminRadio Benjamin2021
- 13Pequeña historia de la fotografía
Pequeña historia de la fotografía2022 - 14Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire - 15Illuminations
Illuminations - 16Moscow Diary
Moscow Diary - 17One-Way Street and Other Writings
One-Way Street and Other Writings - 18Reflections
Reflections - 19The Arcades Project
The Arcades Project - 20The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1
The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940 - 21The Origin of German Tragic Drama
The Origin of German Tragic Drama - 22The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - 23Understanding Brecht
Understanding Brecht - 24Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin