Selected Writings: 1935-1938This volume offers extensively annotated translations of essays that are key to Benjamin's rewriting of the story of modernism and modernity, as well as a diary from 1938 and penetrating studies of Bertolt Brecht, Franz Kafka and Eduard Fuchs. |
Contents
Brechts Threepenny Novel | 3 |
Johann Jakob Bachofen | 11 |
Recollections of CarnivalTime in Nice | 25 |
Paris the Capital of the Nineteenth Century | 32 |
Exchange with Theodor W Adorno on the Essay Paris the Capital of the Nineteenth Century | 50 |
An Overview | 68 |
The Formula in Which the Dialectical Structure of Film Finds Expression | 94 |
Rastellis Story | 96 |
Translation For and Against | 249 |
The Knowledge That the First Material on Which the Mimetic Faculty Tested Itself | 253 |
The Threepenny Opera | 257 |
Eduard Fuchs Collector and Historian | 260 |
TheologicalPolitical Fragment | 305 |
A German Institute for Independent Research | 307 |
Review of Brods Franz Kafka | 317 |
Letter to Gershom Scholem on Franz Kafka | 322 |
Second Version | 101 |
A Different Utopian Will | 134 |
The Significance of Beautiful Semblance | 137 |
The Signatures of the Age | 139 |
Theory of Distraction | 141 |
Observations on the Works of Nikolai Leskov | 143 |
A Sequence of Letters | 167 |
Painting and Photography | 236 |
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