Walter Benjamin - Selected Works (10 books)

WALTER BENJAMIN (1892-1940) was a German literary critic, philosopher, social critic, translator, radio broadcaster and essayist associated with the "Frankfurt School" of social research.

Combining elements of German idealism or Romanticism, historical materialism and Jewish mysticism, Benjamin made enduring and influential contributions to aesthetic theory and Western Marxism. His turn to Marxism in the 1930s was partly due to the influence of Bertolt Brecht, whose critical aesthetics developed epic theatre and its Verfremdungseffekt (defamiliarisation, alienation). An earlier influence was friend Gershom Scholem, founder of the academic study of the Kabbalah and of Jewish mysticism.

Benjamin committed suicide in Portbou at the French–Spanish border while attempting to escape from the Nazis.


All of the following books (and one journal article) are in PDF format:

* THE ARCADES PROJECT (Harvard University Press, 1999). Translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin.

* THE CORRESPONDENCE OF WALTER BENJAMIN, 1910-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1994). Edited and annotated by Gershom Scholem and Theodor W. Adorno; translated by Manfred R. Jacobson and Evelyn M. Jacobson.

* EARLY WRITINGS, 1910-1917 (Harvard University Press, 2011). Translated by Howard Eiland & others.

* ILLUMINATIONS: ESSAYS AND REFLECTIONS (Schocken Books, 2007). Translated by Harry Zohn; edited with an Introduction by Hannah Arendt.

* "MOSCOW DIARY", (1985) 35 October 9-135.

* ONE-WAY STREET & OTHER WRITINGS (New Left Books, 1979). Translated by Edmund Jephcott and Kingsley Shorter.

* THE ORIGIN OF GERMAN TRAGIC DRAMA (Verso, 1998). Translated by John Osborne; Introduction by George Steiner.

* UNDERSTANDING BRECHT (Verso, 1998). Translated by Anna Bostock; Introduction by Stanley Mitchell.

* THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF ITS TECHNOLOGICAL REPRODUCIBILITY & OTHER WRITINGS ON MEDIA (Harvard University Press, 2008). Edited by Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty and Thomas Y. Levin; translated by Edmund Jephcott, Rodney Livingstone, Howard Eiland & others.

* THE WRITER OF MODERN LIFE: ESSAYS ON CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (Harvard University Press, 2006). Edited by Michael W. Jennings; translated by Howard Eiland, Edmund Jephcott, Rodney Livingstone & Harry Zohn.

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For more authors associated with the "Frankfurt School" of social research, see the following links:

Theodor W. Adorno
http://kickasstorrents.ee/theodor-w-adorno-selected-works-12-books-t7975085.html

Max Horkheimer
http://kickasstorrents.ee/max-horkheimer-selected-works-3-books-t7654462.html

Herbert Marcuse
http://kickasstorrents.ee/herbert-marcuse-selected-works-16-books-t7591052.html