On the Concept of History
By
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin
1940

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125 books

Critical Theory

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The Culture Industry
Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things
Media Theory in Japan
Orientalism
Otaku
Critique of Cynical Reason
The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies

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148 books

History

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Erotic Grotesque Nonsense
Interpreting Our Heritage
Orientalism
Shutting out the sun
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

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68 books

Politics

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Rage
The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States
The Constitution of the United States of America and Selected Writings of the Founding Fathers
Common Sense
The Ideas Industry
The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology
Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left

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232 books

Formally Studied

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Billy Budd
Notes From Underground
The Awakening
The Shawl
The Lottery
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas

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28 books

German

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Hikikomori
I Called Him Necktie
The Culture Industry
Critique of Cynical Reason
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Phänomenologie des Geistes
The Concept of the Political

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28 books

Essays

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Offensive Films
Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll
Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
In Praise of Shadows
The Stranger
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

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73 books

Philosophy

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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
The Culture Industry
Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things
Manufacturing Consent
SCUM Manifesto
Orientalism