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    Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (/ˈbɛnjəmɪn/ BEN-yə-min; German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈbɛnjamiːn] ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German-Jewish philosopher...
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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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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Adam Smith, Gabriel Tarde, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Paul Ricœur, Guy Debord ( via his conceptual polemical...
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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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    kitsch was done almost exclusively in Germany 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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    Berlin Childhood around 1900 (category Works by Walter Benjamin)
    around 1900 (German: Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert) is a work by Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) written between 1932 and 1938. The text consists of thirty...
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  • Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond is a 1999 autobiographical book by Larry McMurtry. It was inspired in part by German...
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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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    Capitalism as Religion (category Works by Walter Benjamin)
    als Religion) is Walter Benjamin's (1892—1940) unfinished work, written in 1921. It was published in 1985 and forms part of Benjamin's early sketches on...
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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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    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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  • Walter Garland may refer to: Hank Garland (Walter Louis Garland), American guitarist and songwriter Walter Benjamin Garland, American soldier, activist...
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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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    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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  • idea first coined by critical theorist Walter Benjamin as being a key ingredient to fascist regimes. Benjamin said that fascism tends towards an aestheticization...
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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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  • 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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    for the next six years. They often received guests there including Walter Benjamin, Hanns Eisler and Ruth Berlau. Brecht also travelled frequently to...
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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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    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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  • 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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    earliest analytical texts about Atget is Walter Benjamin's essay A Brief History of Photography (1931). Benjamin views Atget as a forerunner of surrealist...
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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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  • 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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    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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    work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the works...
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  • and Paul Wernick. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Paul Walter Hauser, Molly Shannon, Eva De Dominici, Benjamin Bratt, Daniela Melchior, Eric André and Chelsey...
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    the Frankfurt School theoreticians Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, and Max Horkheimer. Horkheimer described a theory as...
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