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Walter Benjamin

Born

in Berlin, Germany

July 15, 1892

Died

September 27, 1940

Website

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/benjamin/

Genre

Philosophy, Social Sciences

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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 Les Fleurs du mal as well as Proust's In Search of Lost Time. His work is widely cited in academic and literary studies, ...more

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	The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings (Editor), Brigid Doherty (Editor), Thomas Y. Levin (Editor) 4.07 avg rating — 21,232 ratings — published 1936 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin, Harry Zohn (Translator), Hannah Arendt (Editor) 4.30 avg rating — 11,314 ratings — published 1955 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland (Translator), Kevin McLaughlin (Translator) 4.45 avg rating — 2,891 ratings — published 1982 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Walter Benjamin, Peter Demetz (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 2,492 ratings — published 1978 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Way Street And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin, Edmund Jephcott (Translator), K. Shorter (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 1,748 ratings — published 1928 — 105 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Berlin Childhood around 1900 by Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 1,403 ratings — published 1950 — 96 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Concept of History 4.30 avg rating — 569 ratings — published 1940 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire by Walter Benjamin, Rodney Livingstone (Translator), Michael W. Jennings (Editor) 4.24 avg rating — 510 ratings — published 1969 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin, John Osbourne, George Steiner 4.20 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 1928 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Short History of Photography by Walter Benjamin, Henry Bond (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Stanley Mitchell (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 456 ratings — published 1931 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Werke und Nachlaß. Kritische Gesamtausgabe (8 books)
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“History is written by the victors.”
― Walter Benjamin

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“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
― Walter Benjamin

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“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”
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