What to Read After Walter Benjamin
Readers who loved Walter Benjamin by Walter Benjamin keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Walter Benjamin 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 Walter Benjamin
Existentialists and Mystics
Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
A Barthes reader
The Principle of Hope
Adorno
My Belief
Rhythm Science
The selected writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
To Begin Where I Am
Diaries, 1899-1941
On Grief and Reason
Berlin Childhood Around 1900
Illuminations
Of Grammatology
Reflections
State of Exception
Aesthetic Theory
Against Interpretation
Minima Moralia
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Poems of Paul Celan
Mythologies
The Order of Things
Gender Trouble