Some Suggested Readings and Websites
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project (trans. 1999).

Walter Benjamin, Illuminations (especially the "Theses on the Philosophy of History" and "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire").

Walter Benjamin, Reflections, especially "Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century," which is available in another version on-line.

"Benjamin Now: Critical Encounters with The Arcades Project" a special issue of boundary 2 30:1 (spring 2003).

Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (1989).

Margaret Cohen, Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution (1993).

John McCole, Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition (1993).

"Perspectives on Walter Benjamin," Critical Inquiry 25:2 (1999), on-line.