- GS: Walter Benjamin, Gesammelte Schriften, eds. Rolf Tiedemann and Hermann Schweppenhäuser, 7 vols. (Suhrkamp: Frankfurt a.M., 1972–1991).
- SW: Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, eds. Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith, 4 vols. (Belknap Press: Cambridge, MA, 1996–2003).
- A: Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Belknap Press: Cambridge, MA, 1999).
- U: W alter Benjamin, The Origin of German Tragic Drama, trans. John Osborne (Verso: London, 1998).
- CJ: Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, trans. W.S. Pluhar (Hackett: Indianapolis, 1987).
- CPrR: Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, trans. Lewis White Beck, Third Edition (MacMillan: New York, 1996).