the remarkably prescient work of an intellectual truth-seeker
- Written by: Jamie Q Roberts, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Sydney
Walter Benjamin's membership card for the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1940).Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAIn our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.
Walter Benjamin was a German Jewish intellectual born in Berlin in 1892 to wealthy parents. He died by his own hand in September 1940 while fleeing the...
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