A classic collection of Walter Benjamin's essays, including some of his most celebrated writing

Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions.

This collection, introduced by Susan Sontag, contains the most representative and illuminating selection of his work over a twenty-year period, and thus does full justice to the richness and the multi-dimensional nature of his thought.

Included in these pages are aphorisms and townscapes, esoteric meditation and reminiscences of childhood, and reflections on language, psychology, aesthetics and politics.

Author: Walter Benjamin
Translators: Edmund Jephcott F.N. / Kingsley Shorter
Introduction: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Verso
Pages: 480pp
Size: 5.25 x 7.75
Notes: paperback
Release Date: July 20, 2021
ISBN: 978-1839761652