On the Mimetic Faculty
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On the Mimetic Faculty
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"On the Mimetic Faculty" is the second of an uncompleted trilogy of essays articulating a metaphysics or post-metaphysics of language, written by Walter Benjamin in the months leading up to and immediately following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, the Reichstag Fire, and the inauguration of the Third Reich. It was sent as the postscript of a letter to his best friend, a Librarian of Ancient Manuscripts at Hebrew University and Master of Kabbalah in Jerusalem, Gershom Sc
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Essay by Walter Benjamin
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2023-11-18T07:04:17Z
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2024-09-02T09:04:34Z
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