
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

Son Bakışta Aşk
1993

Angelus novus
1962

O Anjo da História
2012

O capitalismo como religião
1921

Kritiken und Rezensionen
1991

El concepto de crítica de arte en el Romanticismo alemán
1973

Toward the Critique of Violence
A Critical Edition
1920

Obras Escolhidas - Vol. 1
Magia e Técnica, Arte e Política
1985

1935-1938 (3)
2002

Walter Benjamin's Archive
Images, Texts, Signs
2007
The Task of the Translator
1923

El narrador
1936

Walter Benjamin
Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938-1940
2003

Sonnets
1986

Reflections
Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
1978

Charles Baudelaire, Tableaux Parisiens
1983

The Storyteller
Tales out of Loneliness
2016

Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle
1935

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

Unpacking My Library
2025

Illuminations
1955

عروسک و کوتوله
مقالاتی در باب فلسفه زبان و فلسفه تاریخ
1992

Berlin Childhood around 1900
1950

Unpacking My Library
A Talk about Collecting
1931

New Left Review 96
2015

Juicios a las brujas y otras catástrofes. Radio para jóvenes
1993

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

کافکا به روایت بنیامین
1934

Selected Writings, Volume 1
1913-1926
1996
On Language as Such and on the Language Of Man
2025

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

El autor como productor
1934

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