Benjamin, Walter

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Suggested Introductions:

Eiland, Howard and Michael W. Jennings. Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life. Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2016.

Ferris, David. The Cambridge Introduction to Walter Benjamin. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Steiner, Uwe. Walter Benjamin: An Introduction to His Work and Thought. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Suggested Trajectory (Books):

  1. Benjamin, Walter. The Storyteller Essays. Ed. Samuel Titan. Trans. Tess Lewis. New York, NY: New York Review of Books, 2019.

  2. Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility and Other Writings on Media. Eds. Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty and Thomas Y. Levin. Trans. Edmund Jephcott, Rodney Livingstone, Howard Eiland, et al. Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2008.

  3. Benjamin, Walter. The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire. Ed. Michael W. Jennings. Trans. Howard Eiland, Edmund Jephcott, Rodney Livingston and Harry Zohn. Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2006.

  4. Benjamin, Walter. One-Way Street. Ed. Peter Demetz. Trans. Edmund Jephcott. Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2016.

  5. Benjamin, Walter. The Arcades Project. Trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. Ed. Rolf Tiedemann. Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2002.

Suggested Trajectory (Essays):

  1. “A Little History of Photography”

  2. “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility”

  3. “Chaplin” and “Chaplin in Retrospect”

  4. “The Storyteller”

  5. “The Image of Proust”

  6. “The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire”

  7. Exchange with Theodor W. Adorno on “The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire”

  8. “Unpacking My Library”

  9. “Edward Fuchs: Collector and Historian”

  10. From Arcades Project: “Convolute D”

  11. “Boredom, Eternal Return”

  12. “Central Park”

  13. “Theses on the Philosophy of History”

Major Influences:

Adorno, Theodor

Baudelaire, Charles

Freud, Sigmund

Kafka, Franz

Kant, Immanuel

Kierkegaard, Soren

Lukacs, Gyorgy

Marx, Karl

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Proust, Marcel

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Relevant Links:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/benjamin/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/index.htm

Podcasts and Videos:

On Benjamin’s concept of history: https://alwaysalreadypodcast.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/ep-17-walter-benjamin-on-the-concept-of-history/

On Benjamin’s concept of the work of art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA

On “how to read” Benjamin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIsXoNLJZo0

On Benjamin’s critique of violence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zazrYKp-U

On Benjamin’s Arcades Project (Alexander Gelley): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r69bGf2DnBY

On Benjamin’s concept of violence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAXgUdcFeh8

On Benjamin’s concept of divine violence (Slavoj Zizek): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM6whu21efc

On Benjamin’s philosophy of history (Judith Butler): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtRwOkGV-B4

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