- The Arcades Project
- Walter Benjamin
- Edited by Rolf Tiedemann
- Howard Eiland, Translator
- Kevin McLaughlin, Translator
- Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of nineteenth-century history, and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "true history" that underlay the ideological mask. Preoccupied with the commodification of things and focusing on the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in thirty-six categories with descriptive rubrics such as "Fashion," "Boredom," "Catacombs," "Prostitution," and "Theory of Progress."
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2002
- Berlin Childhood around 1900
- Walter Benjamin
- Translated by Howard Eiland
- Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood around 1900 is a recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century. In this diagram of his life, Benjamin focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child. This book is one of Benjamin's great city texts, bringing to life the cocoon of his childhood--the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of an emerging metropolis.
- Paperback 2006
- Homer and the Nibelungenlied
- Bernard Fenik
- Hardcover 1986
- Necessary Angels
- Robert Alter
- In four elegant chapters, Alter explains the prismlike radiance created by the association of three modern masters, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem. The volume pinpoints the intersections of these divergent witnesses to the modern condition of doubt, the no-man's-land between traditional religion and modern secular culture.
- Hardcover 1991
- A New History of German Literature
- David E. Wellbery, Editor-in-chief
- Judith Ryan, General Editor
- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Editor
- Anton Kaes, Editor
- Joseph Leo Koerner, Editor
- Dorothea E. von Mücke, Editor
- From the earliest magical charms and mythical sagas to the brilliance and desolation of 20th-century fiction, poetry, and film, this illuminating reference book invites readers to experience the full range of German literary culture and to investigate for themselves its disparate and unifying themes.
- Hardcover 2005
- On Hashish
- Walter Benjamin
- Edited by Howard Eiland
- Introduction by Marcus Boon
- Walter Benjamin's posthumously published collection of writings on hashish is a detailed blueprint for a book that was never written. A series of "protocols of drug experiments," written between 1927 and 1934, together with short prose pieces, On Hashish provides a peculiarly intimate portrait of Benjamin and of his unique form of thought.
- Paperback 2006
- Post Scripts
- Vincent Kaufmann
- Deborah Treisman, Translator
- Hardcover
- The Taming of Romanticism
- Virgil Nemoianu
- Looking at a broad spectrum of writers--English, French, German, Italian, Russian and other East Europeans--Nemoianu offers here a coherent characterization of the period 1815-1848. This he calls the era of the domestication of romanticism. The explosive, visionary core of romanticism is seen to give way--after the defeat of Napoleon--to an expanded and softer version reflecting middle-class values.
- Hardcover 1984
- Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 3, 1935-1938
- Walter Benjamin
- Howard Eiland, Editor
- Michael W. Jennings, Editor
- Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2006
- The Writer of Modern Life
- Walter Benjamin
- Edited by Michael W. Jennings
- Translated by Howard Eiland
- Translated by Edmund Jephcott
- Translated by Rodney Livingstone
- Translated by Harry Zohn
- Benjamin's essays on the great French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire revolutionized not just the way we think about Baudelaire, but our understanding of modernity and modernism as well. In these essays, Benjamin challenges the image of Baudelaire as late-Romantic dreamer, and evokes instead the modern poet caught in a life-or-death struggle with the forces of the urban commodity capitalism that had emerged in Paris around 1850.
- Paperback 2006