Walter Benjamin
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Among Benjamin's best known works are the essays "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935) and "Theses on the Philosophy of History" (1940). His major work as a literary critic included essays on Baudelaire, Goethe, Kafka, Kraus, Leskov, Proust, Walser, Trauerspiel and translation theory. He also made major translations into German of the ''Tableaux Parisiens'' section of Baudelaire's ''Les Fleurs du mal'' and parts of Proust's ''À la recherche du temps perdu''.
Of the hidden principle organizing Walter Benjamin's thought Scholem wrote unequivocally that "Benjamin was a philosopher", while his younger colleagues Arendt and Adorno contend that he was "not a philosopher". Scholem remarked "The peculiar aura of authority emanating from his work tended to incite contradiction". Benjamin himself considered his research to be theological, though he eschewed all recourse to traditionally metaphysical sources of transcendentally revealed authority.
In 1940, at the age of 48, Benjamin died by suicide at Portbou on the French–Spanish border while attempting to escape the advance of the Third Reich. Though popular acclaim eluded him during his life, the decades following his death won his work posthumous renown. Provided by Wikipedia
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Drei Hörmodelle. by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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Illuminations / by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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複製技術時代の芸術 /by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940Published 1999Call Number: Loading…
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Selected writings / by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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The writer of modern life : essays on Charles Baudelaire / by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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Zur Kritik der Gewalt und andere Aufsätze / by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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The correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940 / by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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Angelus novus. by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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Rundfunkarbeiten / by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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Illuminations / by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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The arcades project / by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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Selected writings / by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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On hashish / by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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Der Stratege im Literaturkampf : zur Literaturwiss. / by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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Berliner Chronik / by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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The origin of German tragic drama / by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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Über Literatur. by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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Deutsche Menschen / by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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One-way street / by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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Haschisch / by Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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