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Primary Literature
The current standard German edition of Benjamin's work remains Suhrkamp's seven volume Gesammelte Schriften, edited by Tiedemann and Schweppenhauser, although a new Kritish Gesamtausgabe is currently being edited, also by Suhrkamp and projected at twenty-one volumes over the next decade. The standard English edition is Harvard University Press' recent four volume Selected Writings and The Arcades Project.
| AP | The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland & Kevin McLaughlin, Cambridge, MA. & London: Belknap Press, 1999. |
| B | Briefe, eds. Gershom Scholem & Theodor Adorno, Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1978. |
| BC | Berlin Childhood Around 1900, trans. Howard Eiland, Cambridge, MA. & London: Belknap Press, 2006 |
| CB | The Writer of Modern Life: Charles Baudelaire, trans. Howard Eiland et. al., Cambridge, MA. & London: Belknap Press, 2006 |
| CBS | The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, ed. Gershom Scholem, Cambridge, MA.,: Harvard University Press, 1989. |
| CC | Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin: The Complete Correspondences 1928–1940, ed. Henri Lonitz, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999. |
| CWB | The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin: 1910–1940, eds. Gershom Scholem & Theodor W. Adorno, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1994. |
| GS | Gesammelte Schriften, eds. Rolf Tiedemann & Hermann Schweppenhauser, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, Bd. I-VII, 1972-1989. |
| KG | Werke und Nachlaß. Kritische Gesamtausgabe, eds. Momme Brodersen et. al., Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, Bd. 1–20, 2008–. |
| MD | Walter Benjamin: Moscow Diary, ed. Gary Smith, Cambridge, MA. & London: Harvard University Press, 1986. |
| OGT | The Origin of German Tragic Drama, trans. John Osborne, London: Verso, 1998. |
| OWS | One-Way Street and Other Writings, trans. J. A. Underwood, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2009. |
| SW | Selected Writings, ed. Howard Eiland & Michael W. Jennings, Cambridge, MA., & London: Harvard University Press, 1991–1999. |
| UB | Understanding Brecht, trans. Anna Bostock, London: Verso, 2003. |
Biographies in English
- Leslie, E., 2007, Walter Benjamin: Critical Lives, London: Reaktion Books. (Scholar)
- Brodersen, M., 1996, Walter Benjamin: A Biography, London & New York: Verso. (Scholar)
- Scholem, G., 1981, Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship, New York: Review Books. (Scholar)
- Witte, B., 1991, Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual Biography, Detroit: Wayne University Press. (Scholar)
- Wizisla, E., 2009, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht: the Story of a Friendship, London: Libris. (Scholar)
Selected English Anthologies
- Benjamin, A. (ed.), 1989, The Problems of Modernity: Adorno and Benjamin, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 2005a, Walter Benjamin and Art, London & New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 2005b, Walter Benjamin and History, London & New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
- Benjamin, A. and Hanssen, B. (eds.), 2002, Walter Benjamin and Romanticism, London & New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
- Benjamin, A. and Osborne, P. (eds.), 1994/2000, Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience, London & New York: Routledge/Manchester: Clinamen Press (Scholar)
- Ferris, D. S. (ed.), 2004, The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Fischer, G. (ed.), 1996, With The Sharpened Axe of Reason: Approaches to Walter Benjamin, Oxford & Herndon, Va.: Berg. (Scholar)
- Hanssen, B. (ed.), 2006, Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project, London & New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
- Osborne, P. (ed.), 2005, Walter Benjamin: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory, Volume I: Philosophy, Volume II: Modernity, Volume III: Appropriations, London & New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
- Smith, G. (ed.), 1988, On Walter Benjamin: Critical Essays and Recollections, Cambridge MA. & London: MIT. (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 1989, Walter Benjamin: Philosophy, Aesthetics, History, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
Selected Secondary Literature
- Adorno, T. W., 1955, ‘A Portrait of Walter Benjamin’, in Prisms, Cambridge, MA.: MIT., 1983, 227–242. (Scholar)
- –––, 1931, ‘The Actuality of Philosophy’, in Telos 31, Spring 1977, 120–133. (Scholar)
- Agamben, G., 2005, State of Exception, trans. K. Attell, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. (Scholar)
- Asman, C. L., 1992, ‘Theatre and Agon/Agon and Theatre: Walter Benjamin and Florens Christian Rang’, in MLN, 107:3, 606–624. (Scholar)
- Benjamin, A., ‘Tradition and Experience: Walter Benjamin's Some Motifs in Baudelaire’, in Benjamin, A. 1989, 122–140. (Scholar)
- Brederkamp, H., 1999, ‘From Walter Benjamin to Carl Schmitt, via Thomas Hobbes’, in Critical Inquiry, 25:2, 247–266. (Scholar)
- Buck-Morss, S., 1977, The Origins of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt Institute, Hassocks: Harvester Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1989, The Dialectics of Seeing, Cambridge, MA. & London: MIT Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1992, ‘Aesthetics and Anaesthetics: Walter Benjamin's Artwork Essay Reconsidered’, in October, 62, 3–41, reprinted in Osborne 2005, I: 291–331. (Scholar)
- Bullock, M. P., 1987, Romanticism and Marxism: The Philosophical Development of Literary Theory and Literary History in Walter Benjamin & Friedrich Schlegel, New York, Bern & Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. (Scholar)
- Caygill, H., 1994, ‘Benjamin, Heidegger and the Destruction of Tradition’, in Benjamin and Osborne 1994/2000, 1–31. (Scholar)
- –––, 1998, Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
- –––, 2004, ‘Walter Benjamin's Concept of Cultural History,’ in Ferris 2004, 73–96. (Scholar)
- –––, 2005, ‘Non-Messianic Political Theology in Benjamin's “On the Concept of History”’, in Benjamin, A. 2005b, 215–226. (Scholar)
- Cohen, M., 1993, Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution, Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Cowan, B., 1981, ‘Walter Benjamin's Theory of Allegory’, in New German Critique, 22, 109–122. (Scholar)
- Derrida, J., 1989–90, ‘Force of Law: The “Mystical Foundations of Authority”’, trans. Mary Quaintance, in Cardozo Law Review, 11, 973–1045, reprinted in Osborne 2005, 1: 398–432. (Scholar)
- –––, 1994, Spectres of Marx: the state of the debt, the work of mourning, and the New International, trans. P. Kamuf, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
- –––, 1997, The Politics of Friendship, trans. G. Collins, London & New York: Verso. (Scholar)
- –––, 1999, ‘Marx and Sons’, in Ghostly demarcations: a symposium on Jacques Derrida's Spectres of Marx, ed. M. Sprinker, London & New York: Verso, 213–269. (Scholar)
- Didi-Huberman, G., 2005, ‘The Supposition of the Aura: The Now, the Then and Modernity’, in Benjamin, A., 2005b, 2–18. (Scholar)
- Eagleton, T., 1981, Walter Benjamin, Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism, London: NLB. (Scholar)
- Frisby, D., 1996, ‘Walter Benjamin's Prehistory of Modernity as Anticipation of Postmodernity? Some Methodological Reflections’, in Fischer 1996, 15–32. (Scholar)
- Gilloch, G., 2000, Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations, Cambridge: Polity. (Scholar)
- Habermas, J., 1983, ‘Walter Benjamin: Consciousness-raising or rescuing critique’, in Philosophical-Political Profiles, trans. Frederick G. Lawrence, Cambridge, MA. & London: MIT Press, 129–163, reprinted in Osborne 2005, I: 107–136. (Scholar)
- Hamacher, W., 2002, ‘Guilt History: Benjamin's Sketch “Capitalism as Religion”’, in Diacritics, 32:3/4, 81–106. (Scholar)
- Hansen, M., 1987, ‘Benjamin, Cinema and Experience: “The Blue Flower in the Land of Technology”’, in New German Critique, 40, 179–224; reprinted in Osborne 2005, II: 253–290. (Scholar)
- Hanssen, B., 1995, ‘Philosophy at Its Origin: Walter Benjamin's Prologue to the Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels’, in MLN, 110:4, 809–833. (Scholar)
- –––, 1998, Walter Benjamin's Other History: Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels, Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Hodge, J., 2005, ‘The Timing of Elective Affinity: Walter Benjamin's Strong Aesthetics’, in Benjamin, A., 2005a, 14–31. (Scholar)
- Lacoue-Labarthe, P., 1992, ‘Introduction to Walter Benjamin's The Concept of Art Criticism in German Romanticism’, in Studies in Romanticism, 31:4, 421-432, reprinted in Hanssen and Benjamin, A. 2002, 9-18. (Scholar)
- Lambrianou, N., 2005, ‘Neo-Kantianism and Messianism: Origin and Interruption in Hermann Cohen and Walter Benjamin’, in Osborne 2005, I: 82–104. (Scholar)
- Leslie, E., 2000, Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism, London: Pluto. (Scholar)
- Löwy, M, 2005, Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's ‘On the Concept of History’, trans. Chris Turner, London & New York: Verso. (Scholar)
- McCole, J. J., 1993, Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
- Menninghaus, W., 2002, ‘Walter Benjamin's Exposition of the Romantic Theory of Reflection’, trans. Robert J. Kiss, in Hanssen and Benjamin, A. 2002, 19–50, reprinted in Osborne 2005, I: 25–62. (Scholar)
- Osborne, P. 1995, The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde, London & New York: Verso. (Scholar)
- Rrenban, M., 2005, Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy: In Early Works of Walter Benjamin, Lanham & Oxford: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
- Roff, S. L., 2004, ‘Benjamin and Psychoanalysis’, in Ferris 2004, 115–133. (Scholar)
- Schmitt, C., 1956, Hamlet or Hecuba: the intrusion of time into the play, trans. D. Pan & J. Rust, New York: Telos Press, 2009. (Scholar)
- Steiner, U., 2001, ‘The True Politician: Walter Benjamin's Concept of the Political’, trans. C. Sample, in New German Critique, 83, 43–88. (Scholar)
- Tiedemann, R., 1983–4, ‘Historical Materialism or Political Messianism? An Interpretation of the Theses “On the Concept of History”’, in Smith 1989, 175–209, reprinted in Osborne 2005, I: 137–168. (Scholar)
- Weber, S., 2008, Benjamin's -abilities, Cambridge, MA., & London: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Weigel, S., 1996, Body- and Image-Space: Re-Reading Walter Benjamin, London & New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
- Wohlfarth, I., 1978, ‘On the Messianic Structure of Benjamin's Last Reflections’, in Glyph 3, 148–212, reprinted in Osborne 2005, I: 169–231. (Scholar)
- –––, 2008–9, ‘Walter Benjamin and the Red Army Faction’, Parts, 1–3, Radical Philosophy 142–144, Nov/Dec 2008, Jan/Feb 2009, March/April 2009, 7–19, 13–26, 9–24. (Scholar)
- Wolin, R., 1994, An Aesthetics of Redemption, Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Scholar)
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