Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (/ˈbɛnjəmɪn/; German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈbɛnjamiːn] ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural...

child, Louis-Ferdinand Céline lived in the Passage Choiseul. The passages were the subject of Walter Benjamin's incomplete magnum-opus Das Passagen-Werk...

cultural critic Walter Benjamin, written between 1927 and his death in 1940. An enormous collection of writings on the city life of Paris in the 19th century...

thought it the best of the six books which he bought in Paris when visiting there in 1927. Walter Benjamin was deeply affected by the book, which became a point...

2005 two-volume) ISBN 978-1-883011-53-6 Benjamin Franklin Reader edited by Walter Isaacson (2003) Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography edited by J.A. Leo...

flâneur in his poetry and 1863 essay "The Painter of Modern Life", Walter Benjamin promoted 20th-century scholarly interest in the flâneur as an emblematic...

dedicated to Lisa Fittko at the Varian Fry Institute On Lisa's passage with Walter Benjamin Lisa Fittko on the Women Living with War website Interview with...

Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was an American politician who served as the 23rd president of the United States from 1889 to 1893...

especially concerned with Paris' iron-and-glass covered "arcades" (known in French as the passages couverts de Paris). "Benjamin's Project, which many scholars...

grand shopping arcades include: Palais Royal in Paris (opened in 1784); Passage de Feydeau in Paris (opened in 1791); London's Piccadilly Arcade (1810)...