Walter Benjamin is one of the most outstanding and at the same time mysterious intellectuals of the 20th century. His works - mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis and syncretic theology - do not fit into simple categories. His writing career developed from the brilliant esotericism of early work through the transformation into the main voice of Weimar culture to life in exile, when innovative studies of modern media and the emergence of urban commodity capitalism in Paris appeared. This career developed in the most disastrous decades of modern European history: the horrors of World War I, the confusion of the Weimar Republic and the long years of fascism. The biography, written by two leading researchers of Ben-min's work, goes beyond the mosaic and mythical, presenting this mysterious personality in its entirety. Howard Island Michael Jennings for the first time make available a huge array of information that allows you to clarify and correct the description of the life of an outstanding philosopher. They offer a comprehensive portrait of Benjamin and his era, as well as detailed commentary on his famous works, including "A Work of Art in the Age of His Technical Reproducibility," an essay on Baudelaire, and a classic study of German baroque drama.