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Walter Benjamin

Hippolyte Lecomte, Assaut de l’hôtel de ville, le 28 juillet 1830, 1830

On the Concept of History & Paralipomena - Walter Benjamin

Transcribed from Selected Writings. Volume 4: 1938-1940, ed. Howard Eiland (Cambridge, MA: Harvard…
Honoré Daumier. “Plate 7: Ladies and Gentlemen!, from Caricaturana, published in Les Robert Macaires.” 1838. Color lithograph on wove paper.

Reflections on Class Theory - Theodor W. Adorno

Adorno asks what the proletarianization of bourgeois society means for Marx’s conception of class and its overcoming. Transcribed from Can One…

Critical Theory and Society: A Reader

Collection of writings from people associated with the University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, or the Frankfurt School
Eduard Fuchs portrait

Eduard Fuchs: Collector and Historian - Walter Benjamin

Benjamin's 1937 article on the Marxist scholar and art collector Eduard Fuchs (1870–1940), hailed as…

The Destructive Character - Walter Benjamin

Text published originally in the Frankfurter Zeitung at 20th November 1931.

Walter Benjamin - Radical Chains

I'm told you raised your hand against yourself / Anticipating the butcher / After eight years in exile, observing the rise of the enemy / Then at…

The life of students - Walter Benjamin

Benjamin makes an intelligent and eloquent case against the poverty of student life under capitalism in this early essay, written more than fifty…

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