It is presumed that this list of books belongs to the work for The Arcades Project. It lists titles on history, technology, architecture, photography, fine arts, and literature. These include: the several volumes of History of Iron in its Technological and Cultural-Historical Context by Ludwig Beck (1897ff), The Tragedy of the Technological Epoch by Otto Veit (1935), Karl Marx by Auguste Cornu (1934), the Goncourt Brothers’ Journal, Houben’s Conversations with Heine, books by Fourier, Balzac, Alexandre Dumas (père), and others.
1.6 Archival notes—Manuscript, two sides; shown here, page 1.
1.7 Catalogue of My Published Works (1911–1939)—Manuscript, thirteen sides; shown here, page 1. Compare GS VII.1, pp. 477–9.
1.8. Discussion of Gabriele Eckehard, The German Book in the Epoch of the Baroque. On the top right-hand corner Benjamin has noted: “The Lit[erary] World VI, 23/6 June 1930”—printed, one side. Compare GS III, pp. 236f.
1.9 Walter Benjamin’s Paris address book (1930s)—shown here, pp. 33 verso and 34 recto.
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Fig. 1.1
Literary history
Philology
Art history
Psychology
Religious science
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Fig. 1.2
| I | Sönneken writings expanding file: Letters from all living male correspondents except for relatives and Gerhardi, Blumenthal, Sachs, Wolf Heinle. In addition manuscripts by others’ hands In addition letters from Jula plus those in XVI |
| II | Long brown cardboard box: Memories from school and university days |
| III | Long white cardboard box: Letters from Grete Radt |
| IIIa | White cardboard box: Letters from Grete Radt |
| Japanese casket: Letters from Grete Radt | |
| IV | Three medium-sized cardboard boxes; letters from parents, IVa Letters to Haubinda and Freiburg, I Semester IVb Letters to Munich, first semester, as well as 1917 and after IVc Letters to Freiburg II, Munich final semester |
| [and later] | |
| V | Letters from Dora Extendable grey cardboard box: Letters from Dora |
| VI | Cardboard envelope from The Demons: Letters from Blumenthal and Sachs |
| VII | Cardboard envelope from Meyrink: Letters and other papers from Gerhardi |
| VIII | Blue cardboard box: Diaries and letters from relatives except for those from parents |
| Letters to F. Sachs | |
| IX | Brown cardboard box: Letters from Wolf Heinle and Werner Kraft |
| Werner Kraft and Gerhard Scholem | |
| X | Extendable grey cardboard box: Writings and fragments on the youth movement |
| Large brown | |
| XI | Extendable black cardboard box (torn in half): Poetic works Namely 1) published in any version, 2) others that are only handwritten |
| XII | Brown cardboard box with crest: Duplicates of own works (in manuscript or print) |
| XIIa | Envelope: Lecture-hall files Heinle—Guttmann |
| XIII | White cardboard box: Letters from all living female correspondents except for relatives, plus those in XVI |
| XIV | White cardboard box: Letters from deceased people except for Fritz Heinle and Rika Seligson |
| XV | Sönneken letter file: Duplicates, Manuscripts by other people |
| XVI | Sönneken letter file: Miscellaneous letters from living correspondents |
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| XVII | Grey patterned cardboard box: Photographs, letters of recommendation, certificates;, library papers |
| XXIII | Yellow envelope: Duplicates of the Hölderlin work and manuscripts by others |
| XXX | Black extendable cardboard box: Philosophical works, fragments and letters |
| XXIV | Ernst Schoen (yellowy cardboard box with green edging) |
| XXV | Philosophical essays and critiques typewritten (blue folder) |
| XXVI | Long white cardboard box: Wolf Heinle |
| XXVII | Yellow envelope: Older letters from parents (probably after Switzerland) |
| XXVIII | Book box: Personal and business papers/stamps, certificates |
| XXIX | Small, yellow-brown envelope: Parents Summer 1921 |
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Miscellany
An old farmer’s pipe, amber mouthpiece, bowl studded with silver
Photographs: in the large bureau—middle compartment,
small drawer at the bottom on the right
| Heinle brothers’ bequest | in a large marbled rectangularquite flat marbled cardboard boxwhich probably is in one of the cases |
| Heinle brothers’ bequest | several slim notebooks covered in stiff cardboard |
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Fig. 1.7
Catalogue of My Published Works
The publications listed here are as follows: his pseudonymous publications for the youth movement magazine Der Anfang [The Beginning]: Sleeping Beauty published in March 1911; The Free School Community from May 1911; the two-part Teaching and Evaluation from May–July 1913; Romanticism from June 1913; Thoughts on Gerhart Hauptmann’s Festival from August 1913; and Experience from October 1913.
Listed also: School Reform, A Cultural Movement, published in a Free Students’ publication on students and school reform in 1912; Moral Education in The Free School Community journal; Youth Was Silent, published in the journal Action in 1913; Aims and Methods of the Student-Pedagogic Groups at the Universities of the German Reich, published in a collection of papers from a student conference in 1914; Students’ Author Evenings published in The Student in 1914; and Erotic Education (On the Occasion of the Latest Students’ Author Evening in Berlin), which appeared in Action in 1914.
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