Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 3, 1935-1938

Translated by Edmund Jephcott, Howard Eiland, and Others

Edited by Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings

    Paris Old and New, 1935

    Brecht's Threepenny Novel

    Johann Jakob Bachofen

    Conversation above the Corso: Recollections of Carnival-Time in Nice

    Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century

    Exchange with Theodor W. Adorno on the Essay "Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century"

    Problems in the Sociology of Language: An Overview

    The Formula in Which the Dialectical Structure of Film Finds Expression

    Rastelli's Story

    Art In a Technological Age, 1936

    The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: Second Version

    A Different Utopian Will

    The Significance of Beautiful Semblance

    The Signatures of the Age

    Theory of Distraction

    The Storyteller: Observations on the Works of Nikolai Leskov

    German Men and Women: A Sequence of Letters

    Letter from Paris (2): Painting and Photography

    Translation—For and Against

    The Knowledge That the First Material on Which the Mimetic Faculty

    Tested Itself

    Dialectics and History, 1937

    Addendum to the Brecht Commentary: The Threepenny Opera

    Eduard Fuchs, Collector and Historian

    Fruits of Exile, 1938 (Part 1)

    Theological-Political Fragment

    A German Institute for Independent Research

    Review of Brod's Franz Kafka

    Letter to Gershom Scholem on Franz Kafka

    The Land Where the Proletariat May Not Be Mentioned: The Premiere

    of Eight One-Act Plays by Brecht

    Diary Entries, 1938

    Berlin Childhood around 1900

    A Note on the Texts

    Chronology, 1935–1938

    Index

    Illustrations

    The Galerie Vivienne, Paris, 1907

    Walter Benjamin at the Bibliothèque Nationale, 1937

    Honoré Daumier, La Crinoline en temps de neige

    The Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge, Berlin, early twentieth century

    The Victory Column on Königsplatz, Berlin, early twentieth century

    The goldfish pond in the Tiergarten, Berlin, early twentieth century

    Berlin's Tiergarten in winter, early twentieth century

    Market hall on Magdeburger Platz, 1899

    Interior of a typical middle-class German home, late nineteenth century

    Courtyard on Fischerstrasse in Old Berlin, early twentieth century

    Walter Benjamin and his brother Georg, ca. 1902

  • Cover: Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 3, 1935-1938
  • A photo of the author

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.

Michael W. Jennings is Professor of German, Princeton University.