Walter Benjamin, Berliner Chronik / Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert

Abstract

Presented as a “complete critical edition”, Walter Benjamin’s Werke und Nachlas [Writings and Literary Estate], published by Suhrkamp since 2008, has opened a new phase in the convoluted reception history of this seminal thinker’s work, suggesting that a definitive edition might have finally arrived after decades of belated discoveries of unpublished texts. On behalf of the Hamburger Stiftung zur Forderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur and under the general editorship of Christoph Godde and Hen...