Selected Writings Volume 2, Part 1, 1927-1930
(http://82.221.106.113/maker/5310644b334fe071e0b905d2) Walter Benjamin
In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two
of his greatest literary essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of
Proust," as well as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection
of his wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers.
In the frenzied final years of the Weimar
Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe,
Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic
and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the
Selected Writings is now available in paperback in two parts.
In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary
essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust," as well as by a long
article on Goethe and a generous selection of his wide-ranging
commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers.
Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays, "Franz
Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer," the extended
autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle," and extended
discussions of the history of photography and the social situation of
the French writer, previously untranslated shorter pieces on such
subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary
history, astrology and the newspaper, and on such influential figures as
Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.
Walter Benjamin
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anthologies
Contents 6
Moscow, 1927 10
Dream Kitsch: Gloss on Surrealism 12
The Political Groupings of Russian Writers 15
On the Present Situation of Russian Film 21
Reply to Oscar A. H. Schmitz 25
Introductory Remarks on a Series for L'Humanite 29
Moscow 31
Review of Gladkov's Cement 56
Journalism 59
Gottfried Keller: In Honor of a Critical Edition of His Works 60
Diary of My Journey to the Loire 71
Review of Soupault's Le coeur d'or 75
The Idea of a Mystery 77
Review of Hessel's Heimliches Berlin 78
A State Monopoly on Pornography 81
Image Imperatives, 1928 84
Curriculum Vitae (III) 86
Andre Gide and Germany: A Conversation with the Writer 89
Main Features of My Second Impression of Hashish: Written January 15, 1928, at 3:30 P.M. 94
Conversation with Andre Gide 100
Old Toys: The Toy Exhibition at the Markisches Museum 107
Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Der Turm 112
Moonlit Nights on the Rue La Boetie 116
Karl Kraus Reads Offenbach 119
The Cultural History of Toys 122
Toys and Play: Marginal Notes on a Monumental Work 126
Everything Is Thought 131
Books by the Mentally Ill: From My Collection 132
Review of the Mendelssohns' Der Mensch in der Handschrift 140
Food Fair: Epilogue to the Berlin Food Exhibition 144
Paris as Goddess: Fantasy on the Latest Novel by Princess Bibesco 150
The Path to Success, in Thirteen Theses 153
Weimar 157
The Fireside Saga 160
News about Flowers 164
Review of Green's Adrienne Mesurat 167
Goethe 170
Karl Kraus (Fragment) 203
The Return of the Flaneur, 1929 206
Chaplin 208
Program for a Proletarian Children's Theater 210
Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia 216
Chaplin in Retrospect 231
Chambermaids' Romances of the Past Century 234
Marseilles 241
On the Image of Proust 246
The Great Art of Making Things Seem Closer Together 257
Milieu Theoreticians 258
Children's Literature 259
Robert Walser 266
The Return of the Flaneur 271
Short Shadows (I) 277
A Communist Pedagogy 282
Notes on a Conversation with Bela Balasz (End of 1929) 285
Some Remarks on Folk Art 287
Tip for Patrons 290
Crisis and Critique, 1930 292
Notes (II) 294
Notes (III) 297
Program for Literary Criticism 298
Notes on a Theory of Gambling 306
The Crisis of the Novel 308
An Outsider Makes His Mark 314
Theories of German Fascism: On the Collection of Essays War and Warriors, edited by Ernst Junger 321
Demonic Berlin 331
Hashish, Beginning of March 1930 336
Julien Green 340
Paris Diary 346
Review of Kracauer's Die Angestellten 364
Food 367
Bert Brecht 374
The First Form of Criticism That Refuses to Judge 381
From the Brecht Commentary 383
Against a Masterpiece 387
Myslovice-Braunschweig-Marseilles: The Story of a Hashish Trance 395
A Critique of the Publishing Industry 403
Graphology Old and New 407
Characterization of the New Generation 410
The Need to Take the Mediating Character of Bourgeois Writing Seriously 412
False Criticism 414
Antitheses 418
A Note on the Texts - Chronology, 1927-1934 - Index 420
A Note on the Texts 422
Chronology, 1927-1934 424
1927 424
1928 428
1929 432
1930 436
1931 441
1932 444
1933 447
1934 452
Notes 457
Index 458

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