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Walter Benjamin ( July 15 , 1892 – September 27 , 1940 ) was a German Jewish literary critic 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...


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Name: Walter Benjamin
Birth Date: July 15, 1892
Death Date: September 27, 1940
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Place of Death: Port Bou, Spain
Nationality: German
Gender: Male
Occupations: philosopher, literary critic

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Biography of Walter Benjamin
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Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a German philosopher and critic, published widely on such topics as technology, language, literature, the arts, and society. He left a large body of mostly unfinished work that has been slowly published in his native...
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Biography of Walter Benjamin
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Cultural and aesthetic theorist, literary critic, social semiotician, philosopher of history, media theorist, poet, journalist, architectural critic, autobiographer, and political thinker, Walter Benjamin figures among the most significant...


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Benjamin, Walter Summary
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Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), a German-Jewish intellectual born in Berlin on July 15, was a cultural sociologist, literary critic, and translator of Charles Baudelaire and Marcel Proust. His works are informed by a mixture of Marxism and Jewish...
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Benjamin, Walter (1892–1940) Summary
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Benjamin, Walter(1892–1940) Walter Benjamin, philosopher, literary and social critic, and aesthetic theorist of the modernist period, was born to a liberal, middle-class Jewish family on July 15, 1892, in Berlin. He died in 1940 by suicide,...
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (July 15, 1892 – September 27, 1940) 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...


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Comparative Literature
In the Language of Walter Benjamin
01/01/2002: 1,539 words, approx. 5 pages
IN THE LANGUAGE OF WALTER BENJAMIN. By Carol Jacobs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.136 p. This slim volume contains revised versions of previously published essays-in the author's words, intermittent attempts over the span of an academic lifetime, from the late sixties through...
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Anthropological Quarterly
Resurrecting Walter Benjamin
07/01/2006: 2,142 words, approx. 7 pages
Resurrecting Walter Benjamin Colin Smith Yale University Michael Taussig, Walter Benjamin's Grave. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, July 2006, 248 pp. Although Benjamin's work received scant attention from his peers while he was alive, a vast secondary literature has flowered since his untimely...
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The New York Observer
Art World Shivers After Lovers\'d5 Double Suicide
8/7/2007: 1,224 words, approx. 4 pages
By definition when an artist dies, he or she has given up the power to create. Not only their work, of course, but also the story of their lives. Since their suicides last month, the sadly foreshortened life stories of Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan...
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The New York Observer
A New Williamsburg! Berlin\'d5s Expats Go Bezirk
9/10/2006: 1,815 words, approx. 6 pages
Robert Elmes spent the month of August in Berlin. He borrowed a spare bike from a friend, one of those antique-looking, function-over-form contraptions that many Berliners ride, so he could cruise the bezirken, the boroughs. Mr. Elmes owns Galapagos, the long-standing performance-art space in Williamsburg,...
 


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