Selected Writings: Volume 2, 1927–1934

First edition in English. Tall thick 8vo. ix, 870 pp., b/w illus., notes, note on text, chronology, index. Black cloth-covered boards, stamped in silver and blue foil to spine; black end papers.

In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practising literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of Selected Writings brings together previously un-translated writings on major figures such as Brecht, Valéry, and Gide, and on subjects ranging from film, radio, and the novel to memory, kitsch, and the theory of language.