In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in…

Provides a comprehensive introduction to Benjamin’s Arcades Project - one of the significant cultural documents of the Weimar Republic and Nazi era. This work explores a diverse range of issues…

Selected for honorable mention for the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in intellectual history, awarded annually by the Journal of the History of Ideas This sophisticated yet reader-friendly study represents a…

Die Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur (STSL) veroeffentlichen seit 1975 herausragende literatur-, geschichts- und kulturwissenschaftliche Arbeiten zu vornehmlich deutscher Literatur vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Schwerpunkt der literaturgeschichtlichen…

A thought-provoking collection of essays exploring and extending the Benjaminian project. The range of concerns addressed is impressive, and provides an exciting and invaluable report on the current state of…

For students of modern criticism and theory, Walter Benjamin’s writings have become essential reading. His analyses of photography, film, language, material culture, literature and the city have left an enduring…

In the final years of the Weimar Republic, Benjamin emerged as the most original public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Here, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary…

An introduction to the life and work of Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and literary and cultural critic. The text offers insight into Benjamin’s complex relationships with Adorno, Brecht, Jewish…