- The Destructive Character, 1931
- In Parallel with My Actual Diary
- Criticism as the Fundamental Discipline of Literary History
- Critique of the New Objectivity
- We Ought to Reexamine the Link between Teaching and Research
- Hofmannsthal and Aleco Dossena
- Left-Wing Melancholy
- Theological Criticism
- Karl Kraus
- Literary History and the Study of Literature
- German Letters
- May–June 1931
- Unpacking My Library
- Franz Kafka: Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer
- Diary from August 7, 1931, to the Day of My Death
- Little History of Photography
- Paul Valéry
- The Lisbon Earthquake
- The Destructive Character
- Reflections on Radio
- Mickey Mouse
- In Almost Every Example We Have of Materialist Literary History
- The Task of the Critic
- Ibizan Sequence, 1932
- Experience
- On Ships, Mine Shafts, and Crucifixes in Bottles
- On the Trail of Old Letters
- A Family Drama in the Epic Theater
- The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Tay
- Privileged Thinking
- Excavation and Memory
- Oedipus, or Rational Myth
- On Proverbs
- Theater and Radio
- Ibizan Sequence
- A Berlin Chronicle
- Spain, 1932
- Light from Obscurantists
- The Handkerchief
- In the Sun
- The Rigorous Study of Art
- Hashish in Marseilles
- The Eve of Departure
- On Astrology
- “Try to Ensure That Everything in Life Has a Consequence”
- Notes (IV)
- Thought Figures, 1933
- The Lamp
- Doctrine of the Similar
- Short Shadows (II)
- Kierkegaard
- Stefan George in Retrospect
- Agesilaus Santander (First Version)
- Agesilaus Santander (Second Version)
- Antitheses Concerning Word and Name
- On the Mimetic Faculty
- Thought Figures
- Little Tricks of the Trade
- Experience and Poverty
- The Author’s Producer, 1934
- Once Is as Good as Never
- The Newspaper
- Venal but Unusable
- The Present Social Situation of the French Writer
- The Author as Producer
- Notes from Svendborg, Summer 1934
- Hitler’s Diminished Masculinity
- Franz Kafka
- A Note on the Texts
- Chronology, 1927–1934
- Index


Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2: Part 2
1931–1934
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Publication Date: 06/15/2005