Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, and translator.

Benjamin was born to a Jewish family in Berlin, then-German Empire.  

He worked in many subjects such as German idealism, Romanticism, historical materialism, and Jewish mysticism. He helped aesthetic theory, media studies and Western Marxism grow. 

Benjamin died by suicide by taking an overdose of morphine in Portbou at the French–Spanish border while attempting to escape from the Nazis at the age of 48.

 Family 
Jewish-East German judge and politician Hilde Benjamin was his brother's wife.

References

Other websites

 Walter Benjamin, at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
 The Internationale Walter Benjamin Gesellschaft. In English and German.  (Defunct)
 Walter Benjamin at Marxists.org
 Fragments of the Passagenwerk: The Arcades Project, Giles Peaker
 Aufklärung für Kinder, by Walter Benjamin. 30 broadcasts for German Radio between 1929–1932 specifically for children, maybe 7–14 or so, each consisting of a 20 minute talk or monologue.
 One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin (1993), by John Hughes. This documentary provides clear and accessible introductions to some of the central ideas in Benjamin's writings.
 Protocols to the Experiments on Hashish, Opium and Mescaline  Translated by Scott J. Thompson, copyright March 25, 1997
 From 'Rausch' to Rebellion  An introductory essay by Scott J. Thompson
 Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle  In French
 Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate 
 "Walter Benjamin for Historians", American Historical Review, Vol. 106, No. 5. December 2001.
 "Walter Benjamin on the idea of Progress" ...and the law of "uneven and combined development"
 Who Killed Walter Benjamin..., (Spain/The Netherlands/Germany, 2005, 73 min.) a documentary film about the circumstances of Benjamin's death by David Mauas

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