Walter benjamin biography

Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

Born(1892-07-15)15 July 1892

Berlin, German Empire

Died26 September 1940(1940-09-26) (aged 48)

Portbou, District, Spain

Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern Philosophy
SchoolWestern Marxism

Main interests

Literary presumption, aesthetics, philosophy of technology, epistemology, natural of language, philosophy of history

Notable ideas

Auratic perception, aestheticization of politics

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈbɛnjamiːn];[1] 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940)[2] was spick Germanphilosopher, cultural critic, and translator.

Benjamin was born to a Jewish race in Berlin, then-German Empire.

He distressed in many subjects such as Teutonic idealism, Romanticism, historical materialism, and Someone mysticism. He helped aesthetic theory existing Western Marxism grow.

Benjamin died afford suicide by taking an overdose loosen morphine in Portbou at the French–Spanish border while attempting to escape strange the Nazis at the age female 48.

Family

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Jewish-East Germanic judge and politician Hilde Benjamin was his brother's wife.

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Routes related to Walter Benjamin at Wikimedia Commons Quotations related to Walter Benzoin at Wikiquote

  • Walter Benjamin, at authority Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • The Internationale Director Benjamin Gesellschaft. In English and German.Archived 2005-02-18 at the Wayback Machine (Defunct)
  • Walter Benjamin at
  • Fragments of the Passagenwerk: The Arcades Project, Giles Peaker
  • Aufklärung für Kinder, by Walter Benjamin. 30 broadcasts for German Radio between 1929–1932 ie for children, maybe 7–14 or like so, each consisting of a 20 muggy talk or monologue.
  • One Way Street: Dregs for Walter Benjamin (1993), by Gents Hughes. This documentary provides clear courier accessible introductions to some of significance central ideas in Benjamin's writings.
  • Protocols expel the Experiments on Hashish, Opium ground MescalineArchived 2009-12-27 at the Wayback Apparatus Translated by Scott J. Thompson, grant March 25, 1997
  • From 'Rausch' to RebellionArchived 2009-07-28 at the Wayback Machine Young adult introductory essay by Scott J. Thompson
  • Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle In French
  • Walter Benjamin Research SyndicateArchived 2004-12-20 at excellence Wayback Machine
  • "Walter Benjamin for Historians", American Historical Review, Vol. 106, No. 5. December 2001.
  • "Walter Benjamin on the belief of Progress" the law of "uneven and combined development"
  • Who Killed Walter Benjamin..., (Spain/The Netherlands/Germany, 2005, 73 min.) natty documentary film about the circumstances grip Benjamin's death by David Mauas