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    Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (/ˈbɛnjəmɪn/; German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈbɛnjamiːn] ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural...
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Adam Smith, Gabriel Tarde, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Paul Ricœur, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Derrida, René...
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    kitsch was done almost exclusively in German until the 1970s, with Walter Benjamin being an important scholar in the field. Kitsch is regarded as a modern...
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    bears no relevance to the greater issues of the novel. This essay by Walter Benjamin, written around 1920-21, was described by Austrian critic Hugo von...
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    Walter Benjamin Lantz (April 27, 1899 – March 22, 1994) was an American cartoonist, animator, producer and director best known for founding Walter Lantz...
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    flâneur in his poetry and 1863 essay "The Painter of Modern Life", Walter Benjamin promoted 20th-century scholarly interest in the flâneur as an emblematic...
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  • between Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, due to the former's concerns over Bertolt Brecht's increasing influence over Benjamin's thinking, which Adorno...
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    to objects [of perception] as constellations are to stars," writes Walter Benjamin in the introduction to his The Origin of German Tragic Drama. "The...
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  • Georg Benjamin and the philosopher Walter Benjamin, and the best friend of Georg's wife Hilde, later East German Minister of Justice. Dora Benjamin was...
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    products of mass culture are kitsch, simulations and simulacra of Art. Walter Benjamin in the essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"...
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    The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (category Works by Walter Benjamin)
    "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935), by Walter Benjamin, is an essay of cultural criticism which proposes and explains that...
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    Communications in 2018. Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen...
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  • The Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) of the University of Bern was created in 2015. It is a dedicated to inter- and transdisciplinary research activities...
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    Theses on the Philosophy of History (category Works by Walter Benjamin)
    written in early 1940 by German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin. It is one of Benjamin's best-known, and most controversial works. Composed of twenty...
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    for the next six years, where they often received guests including Walter Benjamin, Hanns Eisler and Ruth Berlau. During this period Brecht also travelled...
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  • practitioners of cultural anthropology." Boyarin writes that the work of Walter Benjamin helped him to "bridge the gap" between his interests in anthropology—German...
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    College Stan Benjamin (1914–2009), American baseball player Trevor Benjamin (born 1979), English-born Jamaican footballer Walter Benjamin (1892–1940),...
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    He studied Hebrew and Talmud with an Orthodox rabbi. Scholem met Walter Benjamin in Munich in 1915, when the former was seventeen years old and the...
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  • of politics was an idea first coined by Walter Benjamin as being a key ingredient to fascist regimes. Benjamin said that fascism tends towards an aestheticization...
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    popularizations and applications of ideas initially conceived by Walter Benjamin and the dialog between his texts and other thinkers in the Frankfurt...
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    Angelus Novus (category Walter Benjamin)
    The artist's friend Walter Benjamin, a noted German critic and philosopher, purchased the print in 1921. In September 1940 Benjamin committed suicide during...
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  • Bleibtreu as Walter Benjamin Alexander Fehling as Max Ernst Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as André Breton Hande Kodja as Jacqueline Lamba Jonas Nay as Walter Mehring...
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    Arcades Project (category Works by Walter Benjamin)
    was an unfinished project of German philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin, written between 1927 and his death in 1940. An enormous collection...
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    hermeneutics has been developed by the work of, primarily, Walter Benjamin and Fredric Jameson. Benjamin outlines his theory of the allegory in his study Ursprung...
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    E. B. Du Bois, Arthur Schopenhauer, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Walter Benjamin, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Karl Liebknecht, Ernst Cassirer, Heinrich...
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    the Frankfurt School theoreticians Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, and Max Horkheimer on the one hand, and on the other...
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  • Walter Garland may refer to: Hank Garland (Walter Louis Garland), American guitarist and songwriter Walter Benjamin Garland, American soldier, activist...
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    Walter Benjamin Garland (27 November 1913 – January 1974) was an American soldier, activist, and politician. Garland was a volunteer in the Washington...
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  • attention of numerous philosophers and political theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Aleksandr Dugin, Reinhart...
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  • thinking of Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Julia Kristeva and Jean-François Lyotard. Benjamin has become involved in the field of architecture...
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