Early Writings (1910–1917)

Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts
Translator’s Introduction
1. The Poet (1910)
2. At Night: Thoughts Suggested by a Schumann Composition (1910)
3. The Three Who Sought Religion (1910)
4. Storm (1910)
5. Spring’s Hideaway (1910)
6. Sleeping Beauty (1911)
7. Diary, Pentecost (1911)
8. The Free School Community (1911)
9. The Pan of Evening (ca. 1911)
10. Curriculum Vitae (1911)
11. Epilogue (1912)
12. School Reform: A Cultural Movement (1912)
13. Dialogue on the Religiosity of the Present (1912)
14. Quiet Story (ca. 1912)
15. Estranged Land (1913)
16. Teaching and Valuation (1913)
17. Romanticism: An Undelivered Address to Students (1913)
18. Moral Education (1913)
19. “Experience” (1913)
20. Thoughts on Gerhart Hauptmann’s Festival Play (1913)
21. The Aviator (ca. 1913)
22. Death of the Father: A Short Story (1913)
23. Romanticism: Reply of the “Unsanctified” (1913)
24. Youth Was Silent (1913)
25. Conversation on Love (ca. 1913)
26. The Metaphysics of Youth (1913–1914)
27. Student Authors’ Evenings (1913–1914)
28. Erotic Education (1913–1914)
29. The Religious Position of the New Youth (1914)
30. Two Poems by Friedrich Hölderlin: “The Poet’s Courage” and “Timidity” (1914–1915)
31. The Life of Students (1914–1915)
32. A Child’s View of Color (1914–1915)
33. The Rainbow: A Conversation about Imagination (ca. 1915)
34. The Rainbow, or The Art of Paradise (ca. 1915)
35. The Happiness of Ancient Man (1916)
36. Socrates (1916)
37. On the Middle Ages (1916)
38. Trauerspiel and Tragedy (1916)
39. The Role of Language in Trauerspiel and Tragedy (1916)
40. On Language as Such and on the Language of Man (1916)
41. Aphorisms (ca. 1916–1917)
42. Balzac (ca. 1916–1917)
43. Dostoevsky’s The Idiot (1917)
44. On Seeing the Morning Light (1917)
45. The Centaur (1917)
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Walter Benjamin

Edited and translated by Howard Eiland

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