(The magnum opus of Benjamin’s Paris years, The Arcades Project, has been published in a separate volume.) This volume, the first of three, will at last give readers of English a true sense of the man and the many facets of his thought. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of his work in definitive translation, under the general editorship of Michael W. Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Jennings, both essential to our project of making the writings of Walter Benjamin available in English, have prepared a short introduction to Benjamin’s life and works, adapted from their Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life.
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