1. Walter Benjamin - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Walter Benjamin was born in Berlin on July 15, 1892 into a wealthy Jewish family. His father was a banker in Paris and later went to Berlin and became an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin

Walter Benjamin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Western Philosophers 20th-century philosophy Name Walter Benjamin Birth July 15 Berlin Germany Death September 27 Port Bou Catalonia School/tradition Western Marxism Frankfurt School Main interests Literary theory Aesthetics Technology Epistemology ... Philosophy of history Influenced by Bertolt Brecht Karl Marx Theodor Adorno Gershom Scholem ... Charles Baudelaire Influenced Hannah Arendt Theodor Adorno Gershom Scholem Susan Sontag ... Jos© Guilherme Merquior Walter Bendix Sch¶nflies Benjamin July 15 September 27 ) was a German Jewish Marxist literary critic ... translator , and philosopher . He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem As a sociological and cultural critic , Benjamin combined ideas of historical materialism German idealism , and Jewish mysticism in a body of work which was an entirely novel contribution to western philosophy Marxism , and aesthetic theory. As a literary scholar, he translated Charles Baudelaire's Tableaux Parisiens and Marcel Proust's famous novel

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Walter Benjamin De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre Saltar a navegaci³n bºsqueda Walter Benjamin Berl­n 15 de julio de Portbou 27 de septiembre de ) fue un fil³sofo y cr­tico literario marxista y fil³sofo judeo alem¡n Walter Benjamin Colaborador estrecho de la Escuela de Fr¡ncfort —a la que sin embargo nunca estuvo directamente asociado— adapt³ su temprana vocaci³n por el misticismo al materialismo hist³rico al que se volc³ en sus ºltimos a±os, aportando un sesgo ºnico en la filosof­a marxista . Como erudito literario, se caracteriz³ por sus traducciones de Marcel Proust y Charles Baudelaire ; su ensayo La tarea del traductor es uno de los textos te³ricos m¡s c©lebres y respetados sobre la actividad literaria de la traducci³n Tabla de contenidos Vida Obras Tesis sobre el concepto de historia Enlaces externos ... editar Vida Sepulcro de Walter Benjamin Benjamin mantuvo una extensa correspondencia con Theodor Adorno y Bertolt Brecht y ocasionalmente recibi³ financiaci³n de la Escuela de Fr¡ncfort bajo la direcci³n de Adorno y Max Horkheimer . Las influencias competitivas del marxismo de Brecht (en menor medida la teor­a cr­tica de Adorno) y el misticismo jud­o de su amigo Gershom Scholem fueron centrales en el trabajo de Benjamin, aunque nunca logr³ resolver sus diferencias completamente. Las

3. Walter Benjamin --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Walter Benjamin man of letters and aesthetician, now considered to have been the most important German literary http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9078625/Walter-Benjamin

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5. Walter Benjamin - Wikiquote Walter Benjamin (July 15, 1892 – September 27, 1940) was a German Jewish literary critic and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin

Walter Benjamin From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us. Walter Benjamin July 15 September 27 ) was a German Jewish literary critic and philosopher . He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory , and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and the Jewish mysticism of Gershom Scholem edit Sourced Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. [...] Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. Unpacking my Library: A Talk About Book Collecting There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. Theses on the Philiosophy of History, VII (1940; first published, in German, 1950, in English, 1955) A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.

6. Walter Benjamin Walter Benjamin. On the Concept of History. Gesammelten Schriften I2. Suhrkamp Verlag. Frankfurt am Main, 1974. (Translation Dennis Redmond 8/4/01. http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/ThesesonHistory.html

Walter Benjamin. On the Concept of History. Gesammelten Schriften I:2. Suhrkamp Verlag. Frankfurt am Main, 1974. I II weak messianic power, on which the past has a claim. This claim is not to be settled lightly. The historical materialist knows why. III The chronicler, who recounts events without distinguishing between the great and small, thereby accounts for the truth, that nothing which has ever happened is to be given as lost to history. Indeed, the past would fully befall only a resurrected humanity. Said another way: only for a resurrected humanity would its past, in each of its moments, be citable. Each of its lived moments becomes a citation IV Hegel, 1807 The class struggle, which always remains in view for a historian schooled in Marx, is a struggle for the rough and material things, without which there is nothing fine and spiritual. Nevertheless these latter are present in the class struggle as something other than mere booty, which falls to the victor. They are present as confidence, as courage, as humor, as cunning, as steadfastness in this struggle, and they reach far back into the mists of time. They will, ever and anon, call every victory which has ever been won by the rulers into question. Just as flowers turn their heads towards the sun, so too does that which has been turn, by virtue of a secret kind of heliotropism, towards the sun which is dawning in the sky of history. To this most inconspicuous of all transformations the historical materialist must pay heed.

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9. Walter Benjamin - Culture Walter Benjamin (July 15, 1892 – September 27, 1940) was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Walter_Benjamin

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10. Walter Benjamin - Wikipedia Translate this page Walter Benjamin (Berlijn, 15 juli 1892 - Portbou, 27 september 1940) was een Joodse-Duitse marxistische cultuurfilosoof. Het werk van Benjamin beslaat onder http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin

Walter Benjamin Uit Wikipedia, de vrije encyclopedie Ga naar: navigatie zoeken Walter Benjamin Berlijn 15 juli Portbou 27 september ) was een Joodse Duitse marxistische cultuurfilosoof . Het werk van Benjamin beslaat onder andere filosofie theologie literatuurkritiek en kunstgeschiedenis Inhoud Jeugd Studie Periode 1920-1933 Periode na 1933 ... bewerk Jeugd Benjamin werd geboren in een geassimileerd joods milieu als zoon van Emil Benjamin en Pauline Benjamin - Sch¶nflies. Zijn vader handelde met veel succes in antiek en tapijten en de familie was zeer welgesteld. Walter was de oudste van de drie kinderen van het gezin, dat nog een zoon en een dochter telde: Georg en Dora. Walter was een ziekelijk kind en werd daarom in van de afdeling Gymnasium van de Kaiser-Friedrich-Schule in Berlijn-Charlottenburg genomen om in het, op het platteland gelegen, internaat Haubinda aan te sterken en verder te leren. Hier kwam hij in aanraking met het Griekse denken en leerde hij Gustav Wyneken kennen, een leraar die zeer eigen idee«n had over opvoeding en onderwijs. Kenmerkend was zijn opvatting dat de jeugd als een zelfstandige fase van het leven moest worden gezien, niet als overgang van kindheid naar volwassenheid. Na twee jaar ging Benjamin terug naar Berlijn. Onder invloed van

11. Long Sunday: Benjamin, GeWalt Walter Benjamin was for reasons which are not so clear, but likely shaped by the circumstances of his death - buried under the name of benjamin walter. http://www.long-sunday.net/long_sunday/2005/11/benjamin_gewalt.html

hostName = '.long-sunday.net'; Long Sunday Main Benjamin, geWalt Walter Benjamin was - for reasons which are not so clear, but likely shaped by the circumstances of his death - buried under the name of Benjamin Walter. This thereby ensured that he was not registered as a Jew, and so was not buried on the outside of the proper cemetary, with all that this implied in 1940. At one level, this introduction might open out onto a discussion of recognition and misrecognition, of the play between the one and the other, of the border and law, of death and monumentalisation, and more besides, which is no doubt possible, salient and would take more than a few remarks to unpack. But I wanted instead to offer a simpler set of comments that run, likely all too hastily and headlong, from the permutations of inside/outside to that of the contract. In some ways, I wanted to respond to Ken's questions about alchemy or, perhaps more directly, what might be put at stake in reading this particular essay, in the here and now that might open onto an elsewhere and otherwise. As Marc Lombardo notes following Derrida, it is not simply that even the most patient reader cannot 'do justice' to Benjamin's essay, it is that it refuses the notions of justice that travel the route of translation, counters "the possibility of assimilation within any kind of economy". To be sure, there are all sorts of economies and investments, all manner of ways in which to 'do justice' to the essay through recourse to law, which is to say, to turn it over to myth - not least, that of a canonical law as it operates within the university, publishing and niche-markets. That said, the essay is hardly without force. And it is by no means indifferent - which, perhaps, is what canonisation, assimilation and a particular kind of circulation in a particular kind of economy would require.

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Walter Benjamin Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. Vai a: Navigazione cerca Walter Benjamin Walter Benjamin Charlottenburg 15 luglio Portbou 26 settembre ) ¨ stato un filosofo e scrittore tedesco Indice Biografia Il Pensiero di Benjamin Bibliografia Opere di Benjamin ... modifica Biografia Benjamin nasce a Berlino il 15 luglio del 1892, da genitori di origine ebraica . Il padre, Emil, era un ricco antiquario e la madre, Paula Sch¶nflies, proveniva da un'agiata famiglia di commercianti. A Benjamin seguono altri due figli: Dora (che morir  a Zurigo nel ) e Georg (futuro dirigente del Partito Comunista Tedesco , che morir  nel nel campo di concentramento di Mauthausen Nel Walter frequenta a Berlino il Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasyum dal quale verr  trasferito per motivi di salute nel e presso il quale torner  nuovamente nel per terminare gli studi liceali con la maturit  nel . Nello stesso anno si iscrive al corso di filosofia dell' Universit  di Berlino . Alterna la frequenza a questi corsi con quella presso l' Universit  di Friburgo . In questi anni intensifica la sua attivit  nella Jugendbewengung , un'organizzazione universitaria giovanile con la quale aveva iniziato a collaborare fin dai primi mesi universitari. Degli anni

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Walter Benjamin aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklop¤die Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Walter Bendix Sch¶nflies Benjamin 15. Juli in Berlin 26. September in Portbou ) war ein deutscher Philosoph , Gesellschaftstheoretiker, Literaturkritiker und œbersetzer ( Balzac Baudelaire Marcel Proust Schwager von Hilde Benjamin und Cousin von Gertrud Kolmar und G¼nther Anders Inhaltsverzeichnis Leben Werke Wirken Quellenangabe ... Bearbeiten Leben Walter Bendix Schoenflies Benjamin wird als Sohn des Antiquit¤ten- und Kunsth¤ndlers Emil Benjamin (1856-1926) und dessen Frau Pauline (1869-1930) (geb. Schoenflies) in Berlin-Charlottenburg geboren. Seine Familie geh¶rt dem assimilierten Judentum an. Seine Kindheit, deren Erinnerungen in der Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert festgehalten sind, verbringt Benjamin in Berlin. Als Heranwachsender engagiert er sich im Kreise Gustav Wynekens in der Jugendbewegung , wo er auch seinen Jugendfreund, den Dichter Christoph Friedrich Heinle kennenlernt. Nach dem Abitur 1912 an der Kaiser-Friedrich-Schule beginnt Benjamin sein Studium der Philosophie, Germanistik und Kunstgeschichte in Freiburg im Breisgau , das er in Berlin fortsetzen wird. Der Freitod Heinles am 8. August 1914 ist ein tiefer Schock f¼r Benjamin, der dem verstorbenen Freund Sonette widmet und sich vergeblich bem¼ht, f¼r dessen hinterlassenes Werk einen Verleger zu finden. Die zunehmende Kriegsbegeisterung Wynekens f¼hrt 1915 zum Bruch mit seinem Lehrer. Im selben Jahr lernt Benjamin den f¼nf Jahre j¼ngeren Mathematikstudenten

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[Illustration fr. photograph by Walter Benjamin's friend, . Courtesy Agence Nina Beskow, Paris.] "The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency, and this will improve our position in the struggle against Fascism. One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name of progress its opponents treat it as a historical norm. The current amazement that the things we are experiencing are 'still' possible in the twentieth century is not philosophical. This amazement is not the beginning of knowledgeunless it is the knowledge that the view of history which gives rise to it is untenable." Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History," (Spring, 1940) trans. Harry Zohn. Walter Benjamin July 15, 1892 - September 26, 1940 The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate is an on-line research resource for individuals interested in the writings and the ongoing critical theory of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) This site maintains a collection of resource information on some of Benjamin's writings, as well as current essays about Benjamin, his work, and the work of some of his close contemporaries.

15. Walter Benjamin Full text of benjamin s epochmaking work. benjamin. walter benjamin (1936). The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm

Walter Benjamin (1936) The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Source: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Transcribed: by Andy Blunden 1998; proofed and corrected Feb. 2005. Preface When Marx undertook his critique of the capitalistic mode of production, this mode was in its infancy. Marx directed his efforts in such a way as to give them prognostic value. He went back to the basic conditions underlying capitalistic production and through his presentation showed what could be expected of capitalism in the future. The result was that one could expect it not only to exploit the proletariat with increasing intensity, but ultimately to create conditions which would make it possible to abolish capitalism itself. I II Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be. This unique existence of the work of art determined the history to which it was subject throughout the time of its existence. This includes the changes which it may have suffered in physical condition over the years as well as the various changes in its ownership. The traces of the first can be revealed only by chemical or physical analyses which it is impossible to perform on a reproduction; changes of ownership are subject to a tradition which must be traced from the situation of the original. Presumably without intending it, he issued an invitation to a far-reaching liquidation.

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var baseDir = '../'; @import url("../style/ie.css"); EGS Home MA in Communication PhD in Communication Admin ... EGS Online Walter Benjamin Links Biography Walter Benjamin Benjamin was born in Berlin on July 15, 1892. He was an unusual figure in 20th century thought, considering himself a "Man of Letters" and a literary critic rather than taking the more illustrious title of philosopher. His short career carried him through the ten years leading up to WWII, publishing an essay on Goethe's Elective Affinities in 1924 that earned him swift recognition. He had received his doctorate in Switzerland in 1919, but failed to acquire his Habilitation , making it difficult for him to find work well suited to his abilities. The work he had submitted in 1928 was the only full-length study that he published, The Origins of German Tragic Drama , and it was likely misunderstood by its jurors, for it prominently contained a complex network of appropriated quotations. In the period between 1925 and 1933 Benjamin eked out a living as a literary critic and translator, as a freelance writer for journals and magazines, meeting a number of left-wing intellectuals. He befriended Bertolt Brecht, an ally who shared with Benjamin both an affinity with the Left, and a suspicion of dialectics (the dominant concept in use at the time). When the Nazi's took office in 1933, Benjamin fled to Paris, maintaining work as a writer for the Institute for Social Research based in Frankfurt. Paris was an inspiration for Benjamin, and it was during this period that he wrote some of his most influential essays and articles for literary journals, including an ambitious (and hence, unfinished) reading of Baudelaire's

17. Walter Benjamin In the collection of his works, walter benjamin demonstrates complete adherence to the notion of history moving through the necessary epochs set forth by http://filer.case.edu/~ngb2/Authors/Benjamin.html

Reflections While a member of the "outer circle" of the Institute, Benjamin does the least amount of addition, or correction to Marxist theory. The added perceptive that he does provide is perhaps the most at odds with Marx , because of what Marx would call "unscientific" methods. In the collection of his works, Walter Benjamin demonstrates complete adherence to the notion of history moving through the necessary epochs set forth by Marx; to human material desire being the prime mover of mankind; to the notions of alienation ; and to the proletariat being the class with the ability to move mankind (through revolution) from the current epoch of capitalism , to the next epoch, communism . Benjamin challenges orthodox Marxism , with the notion that the individual participant in the bourgeoisie can come to a full awareness of his of his part in the current disintegration of man, by the structure of his method, and by questioning the deterministic element of Marxism. Benjamin’s method is a combination of an artful use of literary tools, empirical observation, and "transcendent" experience. technology to strip nature of "her" products prematurely. (76) Benjamin’s essays on the cities, particularly Moscow (98), and his essay One Way(75) present in-depth illustrations of alienation. Moscow alludes to alienation through Benjamin comparing it to Berlin. Moscow is full of almost communist life. Men, and women create and sell their own products, they interact with one another. Whereas Benjamin refers to Berlin in that aspect as an empty city, and a reflection of the bourgeoisie attempt to master nature. (98) Benjamin used the great cities in general as a metaphor for humankind’s alienation, from nature, and from one another. (75) He also used cities to depict the bourgeoisie mind, and its perpetuation of its own illusion. (146)

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Walter Benjamin is the subject of a number of related pages at this site Walter Benjamin On the Concept of History Click here for Background to Walter Benjamin's writing of this piece On some difficulties with the published translation (often referred to as ) Theses on the Philosophy of History I The story is told of an automaton constructed in such a way that it could play a winning game of chess, answering each move of an opponent with a countermove. A puppet in Turkish attire and with a hookah in its mouth sat before a chessboard placed on a large table. A system of mirrors created the illusion that this table was transparent from all sides. Actually, a little hunchback who was an expert chess player sat inside and guided the puppet’s hand by means of strings. One can imagine a philosophical counterpart to this device. The puppet called ‘historical materialism’ is to win all the time. It can easily be a match for anyone if it enlists the services of theology, which today, as we know, is wizened and has to keep out of sight. Click here for some background to the image of the automaton II III A chronicler who recites events without distinguishing between major and minor ones acts in accordance with the following truth: nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history. To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past-which is to say, only for a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments. Each moment it has lived becomes a

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20th Century Index General Resources Women in Philosophy New Book Search ... Advertising Walter Benjamin Online Resources Texts: Walter Benjamin Used Books: Walter Benjamin Know of a Resource? Books Magazines Popular Music Classical Music DVD Video Video Games Computers Software Electronics Housewares Hardware Outdoor Living Toys Baby Gear Walter Benjamin : A Biography by Momme Brodersen, Malcolm R. Green (Translator), Ingrida Ligers (Editor), Martina Dervis (Editor) Momme Brodersen teaches German literature and cultural history at the University of Palermo. He has compiled two Benjamin bibliographies and has edited a casebook of Benjamin studies. Click here to learn more about this book Click here for more books by and about Benjamin The Arcades Project Excerpt: The Arcades project went through many kinds of existence between 1927 and 1939. It never achieved a completed form. What remains are vast quantities of notes, images, quotes and citations; capable of being ordered and reordered in endlessly different constellations. This site is the beginning of an ongoing experiment in just such a reordering, its increasingly multiple links between material bringing elements into new juxtapositions and hopefully generating new meanings out of the debris of the era of high capitalism. (Mind you, this could also just be an exercise in giving these materials an aura, an air of nostalgic mystery which already hangs around their appearance in this present, if not that of the 1930s).

20. Other Voices 1.1 (March 1997), Walter Benjamin's, The Arcades Project Readings from some elements of benjamin s exploration of the history of modernity in 19th century Paris. http://www.othervoices.org/gpeaker/Passagenwerk.php

Reading in the Ruins 1 Fragments of the Passagenwerk A meander through the Arcades project of Walter Benjamin The Arcades project went through many kinds of existence between 1927 and 1939. It never achieved a completed form. What remains are vast quantities of notes, images, quotes and citations; capable of being ordered and reordered in endlessly different constellations. This site is the beginning of an ongoing experiment in just such a reordering, its increasingly multiple links between material bringing elements into new juxtapositions and hopefully generating new meanings out of the debris of the era of high capitalism. (Mind you, this could also just be an exercise in giving these materials an aura, an air of nostalgic mystery which already hangs around their appearance in this present, if not that of the 1930s) The titles below, which refer to the spaces and types of the arcade, lead to different areas of the divertissiment , which are themselves interlinked and lead further and back. It is possible to recross areas from many different directions. Each time, the material is brought into a new relation and in this, a new aspect of it emerges. As a point of arrival and rearrival, it is possible to return to this page from each area, but it is not necessary. The whole bricolage involves text and images and is fairly graphic intensive. Begin the The Feuilleton,

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