Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated. PARIS OLD AND NEW, 1935 Brecht's Threepenny Novel 3(8) Johann Jakob Bachofen 11(14) Conversation above the Corso: Recollections of Carnival-Time in Nice 25(7) Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century 32 Exchange with Theodor W. Adorno on the Essay ``Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century'' 5(63) Problems in the Sociology of Language: An Overview 68(26) The Formula in Which the Dialectical Structure of Film Finds Expression 94(2) Rastelli's Story 96(5) ART IN A TECHNOLOGICAL AGE, 1936 The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: Second Version 101(33) A Different Utopian Will 134(3) The Significance of Beautiful Semblance 137(2) The Signatures of the Age 139(2) Theory of Distraction 141(2) The Storyteller: Observations on the Works of Nikolai Leskov 143(24) German Men and Women: A Sequence of Letters 167(69) Letter from Paris (2): Painting and Photography 236(13) Translation---For and Against 249(4) The Knowledge That the First Material on Which the Mimetic Faculty Tested Itself 253(4) DIALECTICS AND HISTORY, 1937 Addendum to the Brecht Commentary: The Threepenny Opera 257(3) Eduard Fuchs, Collector and Historian 260(45) FRUITS OF EXILE, 1938 (PART 1) Theological-Political Fragment 305(2) A German Institute for Independent Research 307(10) Review of Brod's Franz Kafka 317(5) Letter to Gershom Scholem on Franz Kafka 322(8) The Land Where the Proletariat May Not Be Mentioned: The Premiere of Eight One-Act Plays by Brecht 330(5) Diary Entries, 1938 335(9) Berlin Childhood around 1900 344(71) A Note on the Texts 415(2) Chronology, 1935-1938 417(32) Index 449