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Meeting 17  •  January 27 — Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)

Walter Benjamin

• Hannah Arendt. "Introduction." in Walter Benjamin, Illuminations (New York: Knopf, 1979), pp. 1-55.  •  Electronic Reserve.

• Walter Benjamin. Illuminations (1935+/-). Hannah Arendt, ed. (New York: Knopf, 1979). "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936), and "Theses on the Philosophy of History" (1940), pp. 217-264.   •  Electronic Reserve.  •  $13.50.

Angelus Novus by Paul Klee

• Theodor Adorno. "A Portrait of Walter Benjamin," Prisms. Samuel and Sherry Taylor, trans., (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1981), pp. 227-241.  •  Electronic Reserve.

• Uwe Steiner. "The True Politician: Walter Benjamin's Concept of the Political." New German Critique, No. 83, Special Issue on Walter Benjamin (Spring - Summer, 2001), pp. 43-88  •  JSTOR.   •  This is a substantial article, but one that sets Benjamin very well in the intellectual history of his time.

• David S. Ferris, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).  •  Cambridge Collections Online.