""Perhaps the mingling of the forgotten with the dust of our vanished dwellings is the secret of its survival,"" writes Benjamin in his beautiful book about the small ...

R.I.P., Walter Benjamin, you (probably) would have hated the new iPad. A viral ad for the “thinnest product [Apple] ever created” shows an industrial hydraulic press squishing musical instruments, ...

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 ...

Ferris, David. "'Truth is the Death of Intention': Benjamin's Esoteric Concept of Romanticism." Studies in Romanticism 31, (Winter, 1992). Gasche, Rodolphe. "The Sober Absolute: On Benjamin and the ...

When you destroyed a torturable body. It has been frequently noted that 1990 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of continental Europe to Fascism. In the midst of this remembrance the mass ...

In all his works, though especially in Die Kirschen der Freiheit, Alfred Andersch explores the difference between rhetorical power in the public and the private domain. In that early work, he ...

Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Benjamin ArchiveWalter Benjamin’s Paris address book, 1930s Among the many writers and intellectuals whose posthumous ...

German-Jewish intellectuals, the alienated hommes de lettres of early twentieth century German-speaking Central Europe, constituted a class within that complex and multi-layered Jewish society against ...

“Art is subjective” is a tired cliché, often used in bad faith to deflect criticism or avoid conversation. In reality, there are many objective metrics that are used to describe art, such as color ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5703/shofar.32.3.1 Abstract This article considers Walter Benjamin's 1931 essay on Karl Kraus and explores how Benjamin uses Kraus ...

The artist Frédéric Pajak’s hybrid book “Uncertain Manifesto” is haunted by the philosopher’s encounters with fascism, among much else, as these illustrated panels show. “Uncertain Manifesto,” a ...