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Writings by Walter Benjamin on-line.

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Writings by Walter Benjamin on-line:

• "Reading In the Ruins": Fragments of the Passagenwerk: A meander through the Arcades project of Walter Benjamin. An excellent resource and a work of art in itself, which has been made possible by Giles Peaker at the University of Derby's School of Art and Design. [A U.S. mirror of this site has been established at the University of Pennsylvania] As the homepage explains: "The Arcades project went through many kinds of existence between 1927 and 1939. It never achieved a completed form. What remains are vast quantities of notes, images, quotes and citations; capable of being ordered and reordered in endlessly different constellations. This site is the beginning of an ongoing experiment in just such a reordering, its increasingly multiple links between material bringing elements into new juxtapositions and hopefully generating new meanings out of the debris of the era of high capitalism." Benjamin's writing appears here under the headings: The Flâneur, The Feuilleton, Surrealism, Fashion, The Prostitute, and is cited in the Bibliography.

In German:

• Walter Benjamin - Hauptzüge der ersten Haschisch-Impression
• Walter Benjamin - Hauptzüge der zweiten Haschisch-Impression

• Walter Benjamin: Eine kommunistische Pädagogik. [ 1929] In: Ders.: Über Kinder, Jugend und Erziehung. Frankfurt am Main 1969, S. 87-90.

• Walter Benjamin: Der Erzähler Betrachtungen zum Werk Michail Lesskows (1936/37)

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