Book review: Charles, M. (2026). Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver: by Peter E. Gordon, Jewish Lives Series, New Haven, NJ, Yale University Press, 2026, 224pp., £16.99 (hardback), ISBN 9780300216868

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on Walter Benjamin (substantially revised 2025)
Charles, M. 2025. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on Walter Benjamin (substantially revised 2025). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Walter Benjamin, Antifascism and Mimetic Education
Charles, M. 2025. Walter Benjamin, Antifascism and Mimetic Education. in: Ross, N. (ed.) The Palgrave Walter Benjamin Handbook Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 23-47

Modernism Between Benjamin and Goethe
Charles, M. 2019. Modernism Between Benjamin and Goethe. Bloomsbury Academic.

Introduction (to Dossier on Walter Benjamin and Education)
Charles, M. and Eiland, H. 2018. Introduction (to Dossier on Walter Benjamin and Education). boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture . 45 (2), pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-4380970

Walter Benjamin and Education (Special Issue of boundary 2)
Charles, M. Charles, M. (ed.) 2018. Walter Benjamin and Education (Special Issue of boundary 2). Duke University Press.

Secret Signals from Another World: Walter Benjamin’s Concept of Innervation
Charles, M. 2018. Secret Signals from Another World: Walter Benjamin’s Concept of Innervation. New German Critique. 45 (3(135)), pp. 39-72. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-6977791

Pedagogy as “Cryptic Politics”: Benjamin, Nietzsche, and the End of Education
Charles, M. 2018. Pedagogy as “Cryptic Politics”: Benjamin, Nietzsche, and the End of Education. boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture . 45 (2), pp. 35-62. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-4381008

Erziehung: the critical theory of education and counter-education
Charles, M. 2018. Erziehung: the critical theory of education and counter-education. in: Best, B., Bonefeld, W. and O'Kane, C. (ed.) The Sage Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory London Sage. pp. 988-1005

Teaching, In Spite of Excellence: Recovering a Practice of Teaching-led Research
Charles, M. 2018. Teaching, In Spite of Excellence: Recovering a Practice of Teaching-led Research. Studies in Philosophy and Education. 37 (1), pp. 15-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-017-9568-1

Towards a Critique of Educative Violence: Walter Benjamin and ‘Second Education’
Charles, M. 2016. Towards a Critique of Educative Violence: Walter Benjamin and ‘Second Education’. Pedagogy, Culture and Society. 24 (4), pp. 525-536. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2016.1210202

Being Taught by Biesta
Charles, M. 2016. Being Taught by Biesta. Pedagogy, Culture & Society. 24 (3), pp. 473-479. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2016.1160672

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on Walter Benjamin
Charles, M. 2015. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on Walter Benjamin.

Walter Benjamin and the Inhumanities: Towards a Pedagogical Anti-Nietzscheanism
Charles, M. 2013. Walter Benjamin and the Inhumanities: Towards a Pedagogical Anti-Nietzscheanism. in: Pedagogies of Disaster Brooklyn, New York Punctum Books. pp. 331-341

On the conservatism of post-Jungian criticism: competing concepts of the symbol in Freud, Jung and Walter Benjamin
Charles, M. 2013. On the conservatism of post-Jungian criticism: competing concepts of the symbol in Freud, Jung and Walter Benjamin. International Journal of Jungian Studies. 5 (2), pp. 120-139. https://doi.org/10.1080/19409052.2012.671184

Lines in class: The ongoing attack on mass education in England
Charles, M. 2012. Lines in class: The ongoing attack on mass education in England. Radical Philosophy. 176, pp. 38-45.

Faust on film: Walter Benjamin and the cinematic ontology of Goethe's Faust 2
Charles, M. 2012. Faust on film: Walter Benjamin and the cinematic ontology of Goethe's Faust 2. Radical Philosophy. 172, pp. 19-29.

Philosophy for children
Charles, M. 2011. Philosophy for children. Radical Philosophy. 170, pp. 36-45.

From fiasco to carnival: the end of philosophy at Middlesex?
Charles, M. 2010. From fiasco to carnival: the end of philosophy at Middlesex? Radical Philosophy. 162, pp. 40-45.

Imaginative mislocation Hiroshima's Genbaku Dome, ground zero of the twentieth century
Charles, M. 2010. Imaginative mislocation Hiroshima's Genbaku Dome, ground zero of the twentieth century. Radical Philosophy. 162, pp. 18-30.

Utopia and its Discontents: Dreams of Catastrophe and the End of 'the End of History'
Charles, M. 2010. Utopia and its Discontents: Dreams of Catastrophe and the End of 'the End of History'. Studies in Social and Political Thought. 18, pp. 29-40.

Celebrity come Communism
Charles, M. 2009. Celebrity come Communism. Radical Philosophy. 155, pp. 65-68.

Celebrity come communism: 'On the Idea of Communism', Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London, 13-15 March 2009
Charles, M. 2009. Celebrity come communism: 'On the Idea of Communism', Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London, 13-15 March 2009. Radical Philosophy. 155, pp. 64-69.