Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.
A series of brilliant insights ... a remarkable volume. * Times Educational Supplement * His analyses are inspired. His fragments about with insights. -- George Steiner Benjamin is indispensable as well as brilliant. -- Raymond Williams