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  <name><![CDATA[Walter Benjamin]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem.

As a sociological and cultural critic, Benjamin combined ideas drawn from historical materialism, German idealism, and Jewish mysticism in a body of work which was a novel contribution to western philosophy, Marxism, and aesthetic theory. As a literary scholar, he translated the Tableaux Parisiens edition of Baudelaire's &lt;i&gt;Les Fleurs du mal&lt;/i&gt; as well as Proust's &lt;i&gt;In Search of Lost Time&lt;/i&gt;. His work is widely cited in academic and literary studies, in particular his essays &lt;i&gt;The Task of the Translator&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction&lt;/i&gt;. Influenced by Bachofen, Benjamin gave the name &quot;auratic perception&quot; to the aesthetic faculty through which civilization would recover a lost appreciation of myth.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Berlin</hometown>  <born_at>07/15/1892</born_at>  <died_at>09/27/1940</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Illuminations: Essays and Reflections]]></title>
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  <published>1968</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Arcades Project]]></title>
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  <published>1983</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michael W. Jennings]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Brigid Doherty]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thomas Y. Levin]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Edmund F.N. Jephcott]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Rodney Livingstone]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Howard Eiland]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Berlin Childhood around 1900]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913-1926]]></title>
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  <published>1996</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, part 2, 1931-1934]]></title>
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        <book id="149397">
  <title><![CDATA[The Origin of German Tragic Drama]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Walter Benjamin]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[George Steiner]]></name>
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  <published>1977</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[One-Way Street and Other Writings (The Verso Classics Series)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Walter Benjamin]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Edmund F.N. Jephcott]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[K. Shorter]]></name>
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  <published>1979</published>  
  
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