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Walter Benjamin

15 July 1892 - 27 September 1940

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist philosopher-sociologist, literary critic, translator and essayist. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His Marxism was more influenced by Bertolt Brecht, who had developed his own critical aesthetics, which asked for the emotional distancing of the spectator (Verfremdungseffekt). An important earlier influence and friend was Gershom Scholem, who founded the modern, academic study of the Kabbalah and of Jewish mysticism. Over the last half-century the regard for his work and its influence have risen dramatically, making Benjamin one of the most important twentieth century thinkers about literature and about modern aesthetic experience.

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Subjects
German Authors, Benjamin, walter, 1892-1940, Correspondence, Translations into English, Philosophy, Biography, Criticism and interpretation, German literature, Aesthetics, Authors, German, Criticism, Exhibitions, History, History and criticism, Art and society, Authors, Architecture, Art criticism, Authors, correspondence, Civilization, Philosophers, correspondence, Addresses, essays, lectures, Aphorisms and apothegms, Books and reading, Childhood and youth
Places
Germany, France, Paris, Paris (France), Europe, Latin America, Moscow, Moscow (Russia), Russia (Federation), Berlin, Deutschland, Europa, Ibiza Island (Spain), Nashville, Nashville (Tenn.), Soviet Union, Switzerland, Tennessee
People
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Gershom Gerhard Scholem (1897-1982), Eduard Fuchs (1870-1940), Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867,), Charles Pierre Baudelaire, Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843), Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), Socrates
Time
20th century, 19th century, 1830-1848, 1848-1870, 1948-, 18th century, 1900, 20e siècle, Early modern, 1500-1700, S.XVI-XVII, s. XVI-XVII

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