Walter Benjamin's legacy

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  The Storyteller

  by Walter Benjamin

  Illustrated by Paul Klee

  Edited by Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie and Sebastian Truskolaski

  The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illumi...
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  Grand Hotel Abyss

  by Stuart Jeffries

  In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominen...
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  Radio Benjamin

  by Walter Benjamin

  Edited by Lecia Rosenthal

  Translated by Jonathan Lutes, Diana Reese and Lisa Harries Schumann

  Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to ’33, he wrote and presented something in the...
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  One-Way Street

  by Walter Benjamin

  Introduction by Susan Sontag

  Translated by Edmund F.N. Jephcott and Kingsley Shorter

  Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings...
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  Aesthetics and Politics

  by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht and Georg Lukács

  Afterword by Fredric Jameson

  No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics...
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  Walter Benjamin's Archive

  by Walter Benjamin

  Edited by Ursula Marx, Michael Schwartz, Gudrun Schwarz and Erdmut Wizisla

  Translated by Esther Leslie

  The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday lif...
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  Charles Baudelaire

  by Walter Benjamin

  Translated by Harry Zohn

  Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history. ...
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  Walter Benjamin

  by Terry Eagleton

  This momentous study of Benjamin’s critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton’s thought. Its goal is not merely to contemplate Benjamin’s approach to language, history, and art but to chart a...
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  Walter Benjamin

  by Momme Brodersen

  Edited by Martina Dervis

  Translated by Malcolm R. Green and Ingrida Ligers

  Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is now generally recognized as one of the most original and influential thinkers of this century. In Britain and the United States in particular, he has acquired a statu...
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  Benjamin and Brecht

  by Erdmut Wizisla

  Translated by Christine Shuttleworth

  Germany in the mid 1920s, a place and time of looming turmoil, brought together Walter Benjamin—acclaimed critic and extraordinary literary theorist—and Bertolt Brecht, one of the twentieth century...