The work of Walter Benjamin is of interest to researchers for two principal reasons: firstly, the scope of the topics he addresses and, secondly, the depth of the ideas he develops in his works. It is unsurprising that many readers of Benjamin differ in their assessment of his contribution to twentieth-century culture. Some view him primarily as a philosopher, while others see him as a literary critic. For some, his original political philosophy is most significant, while for others, his contributions to the philosophy of history or art criticism stand out. However, this very versatility makes it challenging to unify his work into a coherent system of views. The pertinent question today is whether it is possible to adopt a perspective on Benjamin’s work that could provide a certain unity. Accordingly, the objective of this course is to examine Benjamin’s entire creative oeuvre through the lens of three concepts that are central to his work: experience, history, and literature. We will examine in detail several of Benjamin’s key works, including The Task of the Translator, The Author as Producer, The Storyteller: Observations on the Works of Nikolai Leskov, The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism, On Some Motifs in Baudelaire, Paris, The Capital of the Nineteenth Century, On the Image of Proust, The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility, On the Concept of History, and Franz Kafka, Berlin Childhood Around 1900, The Arcades Project (fragments) among others.