What to Read After Illuminations
Readers who loved Illuminations by Walter Bejamin keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Illuminations is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Illuminations
Mythologies
Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism
Against Interpretation
Simulacra and Simulation
The dialogic imagination
Homo sacer
Image, music, text
Minima Moralia
Discipline and Punish
Mimesis
Aesthetics and Politics (Radical Thinkers)
The dialectics of seeing
Camera Lucida
Reflections
The culture industry
The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
The order of things
Powers of horror
Of grammatology
S/Z
Literary theory
On Photography
Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci.
Specters of Marx