Walter Benjamin

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title: Walter Benjamin
text: Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, Jewish mysticism, and neo-Kantianism, Benjamin made influential contributions to aesthetic theory, literary criticism, and historical materialism. He was associated with the Frankfurt School and also maintained formative friendships with thinkers such as playwright Bertolt Brecht and Kabbalah
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description: German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
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date created: 2003-05-14T19:17:38Z
date modified: 2024-09-03T15:23:45Z
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