On Hashish

Walter Benjamin

Translated by Howard Eiland and Others

    Translator's Foreword

    Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts

    "Walter Benjamin and Drug Literature,"
    by Marcus Boon

    Editorial Note,
    by Tillman Rexroth

    Protocols of Drug Experiments (1-12)

    Completed Texts

    "Myslovice--Braunschweig--Marseilles"

    "Hashish in Marseilles"

    Addenda

    From One-Way Street

    From "Surrealism"

    From "May-June 1931"

    From The Arcades Project

    From the Notebooks

    From the Letters

    "An Experiment by Walter Benjamin," by Jean Selz

    Notes

    Index

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Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis.

Howard Eiland is Lecturer in Literature at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Marcus Boon is Assistant Professor of English, York University, Toronto.