Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins,” wrote Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish ...
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 Nazis. Following his death, his writing was ...
Writing in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” Walter Benjamin quotes 20th century French director and film theorist Abel Gance as saying “Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Beethoven will ...
Ferris, David. "'Truth is the Death of Intention': Benjamin's Esoteric Concept of Romanticism." Studies in Romanticism 31, (Winter, 1992). Gasche, Rodolphe. "The Sober Absolute: On Benjamin and the ...
Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Benjamin ArchiveWalter Benjamin’s Paris address book, 1930s Among the many writers and intellectuals whose posthumous ...
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