Works
Among Walter Benjamin’s works are:
- Zur Kritik der Gewalt (Critique of Violence, 1921).
- Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften (Goethe’s Elective Affinities, 1922).
- Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels (Origin of German Tragic Drama, 1928).
- Einbahnstraße (One Way Street, 1928).
- "Karl Kraus" (1931 in the Frankfurter Zeitung).
- Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit (The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1936).
- Berliner Kindheit um 1900 (Berlin Childhood around 1900, 1950).
- Über den Begriff der Geschichte (On the Concept of History / Theses on the Philosophy of History), 1940.
- Das Paris des Second Empire bei Baudelaire (The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire, 1938).
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