Benjamin & Kracauer

Through its editions and publications, the German Department in Princeton has a strong focus on critical theory and early 20th century media theory.

Walter Benjamin

Michael Jennings serves as the general editor of the standard English-language edition of Benjamin’s works.

Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, (Harvard University Press, four volumes, 1996ff.). General editor: Michael Jennings. Editorial board: Marcus Bullock, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith.

• Volume I: Metaphysics of Youth, Writings 1912-1926, Michael Jennings and Marcus Bullock, eds., 520 pp., 1996
• Volume II: Crisis and Criticism, Writings 1926-1934, Michael Jennings, Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith, eds, 870 pp., 1999
• Volume III: Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century, Writings 1935-1938, Michael Jennings and Howard Eiland, eds.,462 pp., 2002
• Volume IV: On the Concept of History, Writings 1938-1940, Michael Jennings and Howard Eiland, eds., 478 pp., 2003

Benjamin, Walter, The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire. Ed. Michael W. Jennings. Cambridge: Belknap, 2006.

Jennings, Michael W., Brigid Doherty, and Thomas Levin, The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility and other Writings on Media (Harvard University Press, 2008)

Siegfried Kracauer

Siegfried Kracauer, The Mass Ornament. Weimar Essays. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Thomas Y. Levin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995)

Levin, Thomas Y.: Siegfried Kracauer. Eine Bibliographie seiner Schriften. Marbach am Neckar: Deutsche Schillergesellschaft 1989.

Levin, Thomas Y.: The English-language reception of Kracauer’s work: a bibliography. In: New German critique (1991), N. 54, S. 183-189.