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Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate and influence. Here Uwe Steiner offers a comprehensive and sophisticated introduction to the oeuvre of this intriguing theorist.

Acknowledged only by a small circle of intellectuals during his lifetime, Benjamin is now a major figure whose work is essential to an understanding of modernity. Steiner traces the development of Benjamin's thought chronologically through his writings on philosophy, literature, history, politics, the media, art, photography, cinema, technology, and theology. Walter Benjamin reveals the essential coherence of its subject's thinking while also analyzing the controversial or puzzling facets of Benjamin's work. That coherence, Steiner contends, can best be appreciated by placing Benjamin in his proper context as a member of the German philosophical tradition and a participant in contemporary intellectual debates.

As Benjamin's writing attracts more and more readers in the English-speaking world, Walter Benjamin will be a valuable guide to this fascinating body of work.

• Prefacep. ix
• Translator's Notep. xi
• Benjamin's Works Cited in This Studyp. xiii
• Introductionp. 1
• A Contemporary of Modernityp. 1
• Life and Worksp. 8
• Companions, Influencesp. 14
• Early Writings, 1914-18p. 21
• Apotheosis of the Mind (Geist): Beginnings inside the Youth Movementp. 21
• "Dialogue on Contemporary Religiosity" (1912)
• "The Life of Students" (1915-16)
• Life of the Work of Artp. 29
• "Two Poems by Friedrich Hölderlin" (1914-15)
• "The Idiot by Dostoevsky" (1917-21)
• Defining His Philosophical Positionp. 34
• "On the Program of the Coming Philosophy" (1917-18)
• The Magic of Languagep. 41
• Letter to Buber of July 17, 1916
• "On Language as Such and on the Language of Man" (1916)
• "The Task of the Translator" (1921)
• Art Criticism and Politics, 1919-25p. 50
• Romantic Philosophy of Art and Its Contemporary Relevancep. 50
• The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism (1919-20)
• Exemplary Criticism: "Goethe's Elective Affinities"p. 56
• "Announcement of the Journal Angelus Novas" (1912)
• "Goethe's Elective Affinities" (1921-25)
• The Problematic of Art: Criticism and Allegorical Artworkp. 63
• Origin of German Tragic Drama (1923-28)
• Paul Scheerbart and the Concept of the Politicalp. 72
• "Theological-political Fragment" (1920-21)
• "The True Politician" (1921-25)
• "Critique of Violence" (1921)
• "Paul Scheerbart: Lesabéndio" (1917-19)
• Journalistic Commitment and Essayistic Work, 1925-33p. 80
• Profane Illumination: Surrealism and Politicsp. 80
• One-Way Street (1923-28)
• "Moscow" (1927)
• "Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the German Intelligentsia" (1929)
• The "Strategist in the Literary Struggle"p. 88
• Reviews of Literary Scholarship (1926-31): Gundolf, Walzel, Kommerell, Ermatinger
• "Politicizing the Intelligentsia" (1930-32): Reviews of Haas, Kästner, Hiller, Kracauer, Jünger
• The Task of the Criticp. 95
• "Collected Essays on Literature" (1929-30)
• "Journal Project: Krisis und Kritik" (1930)
• "Johann Peter Hebel" (1926)
• "Gottfried Keller" (1927)
• "Robert Walser" (1929)
• "Julien Green" (1929)
• "On the Image of Proust" (1929)
• "Karl Kraus" (1931)
• "Paul Valéry" (1931)
• "Bert Brecht" (1930)
• "What Is the Epic Theater?" (1931-39)
• Exile Writings, 1933-39p. 105
• The Changing Function of Artp. 105
• "The Present Social Situation of the French Writer" (1933-34)
• "The Author as Producer" (1934)
• "Eduard Fuchs, Collector and Historian" (1937)
• "'The Regression of Poetry' by C. G. Jochmann" (1939)
• The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibilityp. 115
• "Little History of Photography" (1931)
• "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility" (1935-36)
• Reinstatement of Epic Narrationp. 126
• "Experience and Poverty" (1933)
• "The Crisis of the Novel: Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1930)
• "The Storyteller: Observations on the Works of Nikolai Leskov" (1936)
• "Franz Kafka: Beim Ban der Chinesischen Mauer" (1931)
• "Franz Kafka. On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death" (1934)
• Primal History of Modernism, 1931-40p. 138
• Berlin Childhood around 1900p. 138
• "Berlin Chronicle" (1932)
• "Berlin Childhood around 1900" (1932-38)
• "Doctrine of the Similar/On the Mimetic Faculty" (1933)
• Parisian Arcadesp. 145
• The Arcades Project (1927-1940)
• "Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century" (1935)
• "Paris, capitale du XIXème siècle" (1939)
• Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalismp. 154
• "The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire" (1938)
• "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire" (1939)
• "Central Park" (1939)
• The Concept of Historyp. 165
• "On the Concept of History" (1940)
• "Arcades Project: Files J and N"
• Posthumous Influence and Stages of Receptionp. 174
• Record of Extant Material and Editionsp. 174
• Receptionp. 180
• Chronologyp. 185
• Notesp. 187
• Select Bibliographyp. 213
• Index of Namesp. 227