Walter Benjamin
Subtitle: an introduction to his work and thought
By: Uwe Steiner ; translated by Michael Winkler.
Publisher: the University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226772219
Subjects: Benjamin, Walter, -- 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Original German language edition published by J. B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A contemporary of modernism; title: Life and works; title: Companions, influences; title: Early writings, 1914-18; title: Apotheosis of the mind (Geist): beginnings inside the youth movement; title: "Dialogue on contemporary religiosity" (1912); "The life of students" (1915-16); title: Life of the work of art; title: "Two poems by Friedrich Hölderlin" (1914-15); "The idiot by Dostoevsky" (1917-21); title: Defining his philosophical position; title: "On the program of the coming philosophy" (1917-18); title: The magic of language; title: Letter to Buber of July 17, 1916; "On language as such and on the language of man" (19 16); "The task of the translator"; title: Art criticism and politics, 1919-25; title: Romantic philosophy of art and its contemporary relevance; title: The concept of criticism in German romanticism (1919-20); title: Exemplary criticism: "Goethe's elective affinities"; title: "Announcement of the journal Angelus novus" (1912); "Goethe's elective affinities" (1921-25); title: The problematic of art: criticism and allegorical artwork; title: Origin of German tragic drama (1923-28); title: Paul Scheerbart and the concept of the political; title: "Theological-political fragment" (1920-21); "The true politician" (1921-25);; title: "Critique of violence" (1921); "Paul Scheerbart: Lesabéndio" (1917-19); title: Journalistic commitment and essayistic work, 1925-33; title: Profane illumination: surrealism and politics; title: One-way street (1923-28); "Moscow" (1927); "Surrealism: the last snapshot of the German intelligentsia"; title: The "strategist in the literary struggle"; title: Reviews of literary scholarship (1926-31): Gundolf, Walzel, Kommerell, Ermatinger; "Politicizing the intelligentsia" (1930-32): reviews of Haas, Kästner, Hiller, Kracauer, Jünger; title: The task of the critic; title: "Collected essays on literature" (1929-30); "Journal project: Krisis und Kritik" (1930); "Johann Peter Hebel" (1926); "Gottfried Keller" (1927); "Robert Walser" (1929); "Julien Green" (1929); "On the image of Proust" (1929); "Karl Kraus" (1931); "Paul Valéry" (1931); "Bert Brecht" (1930); "What is the epic theater?" (1931-39); title: Exile writings, 1933-39; title: The changing function of art; title: "The present social situation of the French writer" (1933-34); "The author as producer" (1934); "Eduard Fuchs, collector and historian" (1937); "'The regression of poetry' by C. G. Jochmann"; title: The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility; title: "Little history of photography" (1931); "The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility" (1935-36); title: Reinstatement of epic narration; title: "Experience and poverty" (1933); "The crisis of the novel: Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1930); "The storyteller: observations on the works of Nikolai Leskov" (1936); "Franz Kafka: beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer" (1931); "Franz Kafka. on the tenth anniversary of his death"; title: Prehistory of modernism, 1931-40; title: Berlin childhood around 1900; title: "Berlin chronicle" (1932); "Berlin childhood around 1900" (1932-38); "Doctrine of the similar/on the mimetic faculty" (1933); title: Parisian arcades; title: The arcades project (1927-1940); "Paris, the capital of the nineteenth century" (1935); "Paris, capitale du XIXème siècle"; title: Charles Baudelaire: a lyric poet in the era of high capitalism; title: "The Paris of the second empire in Baudelaire" (1938); "On some motifs in Baudelaire" (1939); "Central Park"; title: The concept of history; title: "On the concept of history" (1940); "Arcades project: files J and N"; title: Posthumous influence and stages of reception; title: Record of extant material and editions; title: Reception.