If I had to bet on it, I’d guess that the most commonly cited text by Walter Benjamin is his 1936 essay “ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” But more dogged devotees of the ...

Translator's foreword -- Exposés. "Paris, the capital of the nineteenth century" (1935) ; "Paris, capital of the nineteenth century" (1939) -- Convolutes. Overview ...

The appearance of this volume marks the completion of a grand project, bringing a fully representative set of texts by German critic Benjamin (1892–1940) into English; volume 4 joins the first three ...

Benjamin left Berlin in 1932 and eventually wound up in Paris, where he had a very difficult time scraping together a living, though it was here that he would embark upon what would become what many ...

Reviewed Work: Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change by Anca Pusca Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change is an eclectic collection. Presenting a series of Benjaminian analyses of ...

I found German writer Walter Benjamin through my middle-school history teacher. He was my first adult crush, barely 21 and a graduate student with long hair pulled back in a ponytail and wire-rim ...