Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem. As a sociological and cultural critic, Benjamin combined ideas drawn from historical materialism, German idealism, and Jewish mysticism in a body of work which was a novel contribution to western philosophy, Marxism, and aesthetic theory. As a literary scholar, he translated the Tableaux Parisiens edition of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal as well as Proust's In Search of Lost Time. His work is widely cited in academic and literary studies, in particular his essays The Task of the Translator and The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Influenced by Bachofen, Benjamin gave the name "auratic perception" to the aesthetic faculty through which civilization would recover a lost appreciation of myth.
Series
Books
Angelus novus
1962
O Anjo da História
2012
O capitalismo como religião
1921
El concepto de crítica de arte en el Romanticismo alemán
1973
Toward the Critique of Violence
A Critical Edition
1920
1935-1938 (3)
2002
Walter Benjamin's Archive
Images, Texts, Signs
2007
The Task of the Translator
1923
Walter Benjamin
Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938-1940
2003
Sonnets
1986
Reflections
Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
1978
The Storyteller
Tales out of Loneliness
2016
Walter Benjamin
Selected Writings, Volume 2, Part 1, 1927-1930
2005
Walter Benjamin
Selected Writings, Volume 2: 1927-1934
1999
On the Concept of History
1940
La teoria della traduzione nella storia
1993
The Origin of German Tragic Drama
1928
Early Writings
2011
Illuminations
1955
Berlin Childhood around 1900
1950
Unpacking My Library
A Talk about Collecting
1931
Charles Baudelaire
A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism
1969
Moscow Diary
1980
Tesis sobre el concepto de historia y otros ensayos sobre historia y política
2021
Selected Writings, Volume 1
1913-1926
1996
The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin 1910-1940
1978
The Arcades Project
1982
On the Mimetic Faculty
2025
Recent Writings by Walter Benjamin
2013
Deutsche Menschen Eine Folge Von Briefen Ausgewählt Und Eingeleitet Von Wlater Benjamin. Mit Einem Nachwort Von Theodor W. Adorno
1936
On Hashish
1972
Walter Benjamin
Selected Writings, Volume 2, Part 2, 1931-1934
2005
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
1936
Radio Benjamin
2013
A Short History of Photography
1931
Understanding Brecht
1966
Dreams
By Walter Benjamin.
2008
The "Berlin Chronicle" Notices
1988
One Way Street And Other Writings
1928
