1. W. Benjamin, The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, translated by M. R. Jacobson and E. M. Jacobson, edited by G. Scholem and T. W. Adorno (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 359 (hereafter C).
2. See for this discussion: T. W. Adorno, ‘A Portrait of Walter Benjamin’ in his Prisms, translated by S. and S. Weber (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981); H. Arendt’s introduction to
3. Benjamin’s Illuminations, translated by H. Zohn (New York: Schocken, 1969);
4. B. Witte, Walter Benjamin: Der Intellektuelle als Kritiker (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1976);
5. S. Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989).