Walter Benjamin

Les Fleurs du mal er en digtsamling af Charles Baudelaire udgivet i 1857. Grundtonen slås an allerede fra første digt, der er tilegnet læseren. Her drages læseren ind det moralske morads, som digteren tynges dybere og dybere ned i, jo længere digtsamlingen skrider fremad. Samlingen lægger ud med digterens tro på en …

Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', ‘The Task of the Translator’ and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as essays on Kafka, storytelling, …

The Origin of German Tragic Drama or Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels was the postdoctoral major academic work submitted by Walter Benjamin to the University of Frankfurt in 1925, and not published until 1928. The book is a study of German drama during the baroque period and was meant to earn Benjamin the …