Walter Benjamin
One-Way Street And Other Writings

Walter Benjamin was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This selection brings together Benjamin’s major works, including One-Way Street, his dreamlike, aphoristic observations of urban life in Weimar Germany; Unpacking My Library, a delightful meditation on book-collecting; the confessional Hashish in Marseille; and The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, his seminal essay on how technology changes the way we appreciate art. Also including writings on subjects ranging from Proust to Kafka, violence to surrealism, this is the essential volume on one of the most prescient critical voices of the modern age.

Published by Penguin in 2009
ISBN 9780141189475
304 pages