Im ersten Satz erklärt dieses umfassende, facettenreiche Porträt Walter Benjamin zu einem »der wi...

Howard Eiland's Notes on Literature, Film, and Jazz is a highly erudite and courageous inquiry in...

Walter Benjamin was perhaps the twentieth century's most elusive intellectual. His writings defy ...

'The Arcades Project' is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience ...

Focusing on the 17th-century play of mourning, Walter Benjamin identifies allegory as the constit...

Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Benjamin's recollection of his childhood in an upper...

A volume in the SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory Rodolphe Gasche, editor

Walter Benjamin's posthumously published collection of writings on hashish is a detailed blueprin...

Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane ...

Examines this forceful emotion from philosophical, literary, and art historical perspectives.

'Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness.' S...

Walter Benjamin's essays on the great French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire revolutionized not jus...