books on W. Benjamin

[Michael Young]

Hey hey,

thanks to all who repsonded to my query; much good stuff to look through.
(I was pleased to find that many of the books suggested are already on my
book shelf: I'm *both* a known/admitted bibliophile --some would say to the
point of commodity fetishization!-- and coordinate a not for-/anti- profit
book shop here in vancouver, so I've accumulated quite a number).

I probably should have been a little more descriptive in my post, so here
goes: both my friend & I are no strangers to Benjamin, although my interest
in him , and the frankfurters generally, is more long standing. I've
recently read Jay's *Dialectical Imagination* & about half of Wiggerhaus'
*The Frankfurt School* and have, in the past, read most of both
*Reflections* & *Illumination*; he's more into Foucault, discourse
analysis, & post colonial theory(s). We're looking for books, not
necessarily as *guides* or *primers*, per se, but as texts we can have as
mutual ground (seperate from the WB we're about to read) that we can react
towards/against, can (dis)agree with. If we, along the way, find something
that fits what we're reading in WB then thats great; if we don't, but get
shunted here & there until we get where were we're going (with him) then
thats great, too (shmaybe better).

I'm also interested in the era (Weimar) generally; WB's 'constellation'
(adorno, lukacs, scholem, etc etc); and too much to bore you with here.
Chances are, I'll be posting questions/observations as we go along. Hope to
see you then!

cheers/.

mdy/.

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