Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938-1940

Walter Benjamin

Edited by Howard Eiland

Edited by Michael W. Jennings

    FRUITS OF EXILE, 1938 (PART 2)

    1. The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire

    2. Blanqui

    3. The Study Begins with Some Reflections on the Influence of Les Fleurs du mal

    4. Exchange with Theodor W. Adorno on "The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire"

    5. Review of Renéville's Expérience poétique

    6. Review of Freund's Photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle

    7. Reviw of Francesco's Macht des Charlatans

    8. A chronicle of Germany's Unemployed

    9. A Novel of German Jews

    THEORY OF REMEMBRANCE, 1939

    1. Review of Hönigswald's Philosophie und Sprache

    2. Review of Sternberger's Panorama

    3. Review of Béguin's Ame romantique et le rêve

    4. Note on Brecht

    5. Central Park

    6. Exchange with Theodor W. Adorno on "The Flâneur" Section of "The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire"

    7. Commentary on Poems by Brecht

    8. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: Third Version

    9. Germans of 1789

    10. What is the Epic Theater? (II)

    MATERIALIST THEOLOGY, 1940

    1. On Some Motifs in Baudelaire

    2. "The Regression of Poetry," by Carl Gustav Jochmann

    3. Curriculum Vitae (VI): Dr. Walter Benjamin

    4. On Scheerbart

    5. On the Concept of History

    6. Paralipomena to "On the Concept of History"

    7. Letter to Theodor W. Adorno on Baudelaire, Goerge and Hofmannsthal

    A Note on the Texts

    Chronology

    List of writings in Volumes 1-4

    Index

  • Cover: Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938-1940
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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.

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