Walter Benjamin - Works

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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