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What should I read from Benjamin?

>> No.13045610

Start with Illuminations and Reflections. Then if dedicated read Arcades Projects. Then if really dedicated get the multi-volume complete oeuvre. Best of luck!

>> No.13045619

>>13045610
I am very stupid and don't want to read full books, just a few essays.
I guess I'll start with The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction because it's the one I recognize out of Illuminations.

>> No.13045646

>>13045619
Illuminations is a collection of essays

>> No.13045662

>>13045619
Just read his essais, they're all quite short (and extremely hard to understand). "Critique of Violence" could be a good starting point.

>> No.13046273

>>13045561
The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov.
Not a particularly difficult essay but very insightful.

>> No.13046304

>>13045619
Theses on the Philosophy of History
The Task of the Translator

>> No.13047631

>>13045561
one way street
baudelaire: a lyric poet under high capitalism