Walter Benjamin, Author, Howard Eiland, Translator Belknap Press $14.5 (192p) ISBN 978-0-674-02222-5
""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 things he remembers from his childhood in Berlin. Writing in Italy in 1932,...
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Walter Benjamin, Author, Edmund Jephcott, Translator Schocken Books Inc $16 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8052-0802-3
An extraordinary collection of writings of a major modern thinker and cultural critic, this is a companion volume to Illuminations, edited by Hannah Arendt. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater...
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Walter Benjamin, Author, Michael William Jennings, Editor, Marcus Bullock, Editor Belknap Press $62.5 (528p) ISBN 978-0-674-94585-2
Walter Benjamin's posthumous influence as philosopher and critic has grown since his suicide in 1940, when it appeared that his escape from France into Spain would end with deportation to a concentration camp. Brodersen's biography, awkwardly and...
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Walter Benjamin, Author, Rolf Tiedemann, Editor, Howard Eiland, Translator Belknap Press $62 (1088p) ISBN 978-0-674-04326-8
Because he was Jewish and a Marxist in Nazi Germany, history was against the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). His writings were left scattered in ephemeral publications, went unpublished or were simply left unfinished...
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Walter Benjamin, Author, Howard Eiland, Editor, Michael William Jennings, Editor . Harvard Univ. $39.95 (477p) ISBN 978-0-674-01076-5
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 installments along with The Arcades Project,
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Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, Author, Walter Benjamin, Author, Henri Lonitz, Editor Harvard University Press $57.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-674-15427-8
These two mandarin intellectuals first met in 1923 in Frankfurt am Main. Joined by a powerful interest in philosophy and criticism, Adorno (1903-1969) and Benjamin (1892-1940) became intellectual allies by the end of the decade. Their extraordinary...
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Gershom Gerhard Scholem, Author, Walter Benjamin, Author, Bonny V. Fetterman, Editor Schocken Books Inc $27.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4065-8
An impassioned glimpse into the death throes of the German-Jewish tradition can be gleaned from the correspondence between Walter Benjamin, the great literary-social critic who lived in exile in Paris, and Gershom Scholem, scholar of the Jewish...
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Howard Eiland, Editor, Michael William Jennings, Editor, Walter Benjamin, Author . Harvard Univ. $39.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-674-00896-0
Over the past few years, Harvard's systematic presentation of the work of German cultural critic Benjamin (1892–1940) has proved a revelation, including the first English translation of many minor texts that show him pioneering the...
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Walter Benjamin, trans. from the German by Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie, and Sebastian Truskolaski. Verso (PRH, dist.), $19.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-78478-304-4
Dreams, diaries, reviews, fragments, and short fiction make up The Storyteller, but there’s no denying that this potpourri by the German critic and philosopher Benjamin is an essential addition to the corpus of one of the 20th century’s preeminent...
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Walter Benjamin, trans. from the German by Howard Eiland and others. Harvard/Belknap, $27.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-674-04993-2
This is a valuable addition to the available work in English of one of the seminal Jewish critical thinkers of the 20th century, author of the massive Arcades Project. The mostly lambent translations by editor Eiland and others—with notes that...
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Walter Benjamin, edited by Lecia Rosenthal, trans. from the German by Jonathan Lutes, Lisa Harries Schumann, and Diana Reese. Verso (Norton, dist.), $29.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-78168-575-4
This ebullient compendium collects Benjamin’s heretofore obscure and mostly untranslated radio broadcasts aired between 1927 and 1933. The majority were written for children, though there are a handful of literary musings, radio dramas, practical...
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