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Overview

Walter Benjamin is affiliated with Temple University in the United States, focusing their research predominantly in atmospheric science, sociology and political science, literature and literary theory, philosophy, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's recent research output spans several publications, covering topics such as cryospheric studies, aeolian processes, political theology, and psychoanalysis. Notable recent papers include:

  • Radar measurements of blowing snow off a mountain ridge (2020) - The Cryosphere
  • Identifying airborne snow metamorphism with stable water isotopes (2024) - The Cryosphere
  • Wind conditions for snow cornice formation in a wind tunnel (2023) - The Cryosphere
  • On the Concept of History (2023) - Lietuvos istorijos studijos
  • Wind tunnel experiments to quantify the effect of aeolian snow transport on the surface snow microstructure (2024) - The Cryosphere

Walter Benjamin's work has been published in a variety of venues. The most frequent include:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Manchester University Press eBooks
  • IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters
  • Lietuvos istorijos studijos
  • Przegląd Historyczny

The scientist has contributed to book publications as well, including a title published by Stanford University Press eBooks:

  • Toward the Critique of Violence (2021)

Collaborations have been a notable aspect of Walter Benjamin's research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Michael Lehning
  • Sonja Wahl
  • Thomas Seufferlein
  • Hendrik Huwald
  • Josué Gehring

The core topics central to Walter Benjamin's research encompass:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
  • Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Political Theology and Sovereignty

Best Publications

  • The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    Walter Benjamin

  • The Arcades Project

    Walter Benjamin;Howard Eiland;Kevin McLaughlin;Rolf Tiedemann

  • Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit

    Walter Benjamin

  • The Origin of German Tragic Drama

    Walter Benjamin

  • Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism

    Walter Benjamin

  • Über den Begriff der Geschichte

    Walter Benjamin

  • Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

    Walter Benjamin;Harry Zohn

  • On the Concept of History

    Patrick Boucheron;Walter Benjamin

  • Theses on the Philosophy of History

    Walter Benjamin

  • La obra de arte en la época de su reproductibilidad técnica

    Walter Benjamin

  • Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

    Walter Benjamin;Peter Demetz

  • The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

    Walter Benjamin

  • One-way street, and other writings

    Walter Benjamin

  • The Origin of German Tragic Drama

    R. J. Alexander;Walter Benjamin;John Osborne

  • The Author as Producer

    Walter Benjamin

  • Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels

    Walter Benjamin

  • On Some Motifs in Baudelaire

    Walter Benjamin

  • The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire

    Walter Benjamin

  • Libro de los pasajes

    Walter Benjamin;Rolf Tiedemann

  • Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit : drei Studien zur Kunstsoziologie

    Walter Benjamin

  • A Short History of Photography

    Walter Benjamin

  • The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940

    Walter Benjamin;Theodor W. Adorno;Henri Lonitz;Nicholas Walker

Frequent Co-Authors

Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno Goethe University Frankfurt
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt Keele University
Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard Université Paris Cité
Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse University of California, San Diego
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel Freie Universität Berlin
Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes Université Paris Cité

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