Walter Benjamin

Ondskapens blomster er en diktsamling av den franske poeten Charles Baudelaire. Boken er blitt kalt 1800-tallets mest epokegjørende diktsamling. Den kom ut i tre utgaver: den første i 1857, den andre i 1861 og den tredje ett år etter Baudelaires død i 1868. Etter utgivelsen i 1857 ble Baudelaire saksøkt og dømt til …

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 …