Books in the Walter Benjamin Studies series

This text explores the enduring relationship between Walter Benjamin's literary and philosophical work and the tradition of German romanticism, as well as Holderlin and Goethe.

Walter Benjamin's most famous and influential essay remains The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. This is the first book to provide a broad and dedicated analysis of this canonical work and its effect upon core contemporary concerns in the visual arts, aesthetics and the history of philosophy.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to Benjamin's "Arcades Project" - one of the significant cultural documents of the Weimar Republic and Nazi era. This work explores a diverse range of issues such as the physiognomy of ruins, the dialectical image, and modernity and architecture.