Walter Benjamin
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (15 July 1892 – 27 September 1940) was a German Jewish author (writer) and philosopher.
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- “There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”[1]
- Simple: Every document of civilization is a document of barbarism.
[change] References
- ↑ Theses on the Philosophy of History, VII (1940; first published, in German, 1950, in English, 1955)
[change] Other websites
Walter Benjamin on the English Wikipedia
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