Reading List

While Benjamin’s quotes, photos and sketches are enlightening, they are nothing quite like the real thing. Here is a growing list of reading material on all things Benjamin and his followers.

Illuminations, by Walter Benjamin, Edited by Hannah Arendt, Translated by Harry Zohn

Reflections: Essays Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, by Walter Benjamin, Edited by Peter Demetz

Berlin Childhood Around 1900, by Walter Benjamin, Translated by Howard Eiland

On Hashish, by Walter Benjamin, Edited by Howard Eiland with an Introduction by Marcus Boon

Early Writings (1910-1917) by Walter Benjamin, Edited by Howard Eiland (out in 2011)

Walter Benjamin’s Archive: Images, Texts, Signs, by Walter Benjamin, Edited by Ursula Marx, Gudrun Schwarz, Michael Schwarz, Erdmut Wizisla, Translated by Esther Leslie.

One Way Street and Other Writings, by Walter Benjamin

The Arcades Project, by Walter Benjamin, Edited by Rolf Tiedermann, Translated from the German by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin

The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project, by Susan Buck-Morss

Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond, by Larry McMurty

Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, Translated by Edmund Jephcott

Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords, by Theodor W. Adorno, Translated by Henry W. Pickford, Introduction by Lydia Goehr

Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism by Gershom Scholem

Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, by Bertolt Brech, Translated by John Willett

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