Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a German philosopher and critic, published widely on such topics as technology, language, literature, the arts, and society. He left a large body of mostly unfinished work that has been slowly published in his native...

Cultural and aesthetic theorist, literary critic, social semiotician, philosopher of history, media theorist, poet, journalist, architectural critic, autobiographer, and political thinker, Walter Benjamin figures among the most significant...

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), a German-Jewish intellectual born in Berlin on July 15, was a cultural sociologist, literary critic, and translator of Charles Baudelaire and Marcel Proust. His works are informed by a mixture of Marxism and Jewish...

Benjamin, Walter(1892–1940) Walter Benjamin, philosopher, literary and social critic, and aesthetic theorist of the modernist period, was born to a liberal, middle-class Jewish family on July 15, 1892, in Berlin. He died in 1940 by suicide,...

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (July 15, 1892 – September 27, 1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also...

IN THE LANGUAGE OF WALTER BENJAMIN. By Carol Jacobs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.136 p. This slim volume contains revised versions of previously published essays-in the author's words, intermittent attempts over the span of an academic lifetime, from the late sixties through...

Resurrecting Walter Benjamin Colin Smith Yale University Michael Taussig, Walter Benjamin's Grave. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, July 2006, 248 pp. Although Benjamin's work received scant attention from his peers while he was alive, a vast secondary literature has flowered since his untimely...

By definition when an artist dies, he or she has given up the power to create. Not only their work, of course, but also the story of their lives. Since their suicides last month, the sadly foreshortened life stories of Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan...

Robert Elmes spent the month of August in Berlin. He borrowed a spare bike from a friend, one of those antique-looking, function-over-form contraptions that many Berliners ride, so he could cruise the bezirken, the boroughs. Mr. Elmes owns Galapagos, the long-standing performance-art space in Williamsburg,...