Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2: Part 2: 1931–1934 (Volume 2, Volume 2)

This volume is one of the some 6 published by Harvard UP of major articles and essays of literary and social critic Walter Benjamin in a very fine English translation. One begins to understand the breadth and depth of this extraordinary homme des letters/

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To help you appreciate the extraordinary depth and scope of WB, here is the Table of Contents as provided by Belknap Press: Moscow, 1927 Dream Kitsch The Political Groupings of Russian Writers On the Present Situation of Russian Film Reply to Oscar A.H. Schmitz Introductory Remarks on a Series for L’Humanité Moscow Review of Gladkov’s Cement Journalism Gottfried Keller Diary of My Journey to the Loire Review of Soupault’s Le coeur d’or The Idea of a Mystery Review of Hessel’s Heimliches Berlin A State Monopoly on Pornography Image Imperatives, 1928 Curriculum Vitae (III) André Gide and Germany Main Features of My Second Impression of Hashish Conversation with André Gide Old Toys Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Der Turm Moonlit Nights on the rue la Boétie Karl Kraus Reads Offenbach The Cultural History of Toys Toys and Play Everything Is Thought Books by the Mentally Ill Review of the Mendelssohns’ Der Mensch in der Handschrift Food Fair Paris as Goddess The Path to Success, in Thirteen Theses Weimar The Fireside Saga News about Flowers Review of Green’s Adrienne Mesurat Goethe Karl Kraus [Fragment] The Return of the Flâneur, 1929 Chaplin Program for a Proletarian Children’s Theater Surrealism Chaplin in Retrospect Chambermaids’ Romances of the Past Century Marseilles On the Image of Proust The Great Art of Making Things Seem Closer Together Milieu Theoreticians Children’s Literature Robert Walser The Return of the Flâneur Short Shadows (I) A Communist Pedagogy Notes on a Conversation with Béla Balász Some Remarks on Folk Art Tip for Patrons Crisis and Critique, 1930 Notes (II) Notes (III) Program for Literary Criticism Notes on a Theory of Gambling The Crisis of the Novel An Outsider Makes His Mark Theories of German Fascism Demonic Berlin Hashish, Beginning of March 1930 Julien Green Paris Diary Review of Kracauer’s Die Angestellten Food Bert Brecht The First Form of Criticism That Refuses to Judge From the Brecht Commentary Against a Masterpiece Myslovice—Braunschweig—Marseilles A Critique of the Publishing Industry Graphology Old and New Characterization of the New Generation The Need to Take the Mediating Character of Bourgeois Writing Seriously False Criticism Antitheses A Note on the Texts Chronology, 1927–1934 Index