… “historical” to Benjamin’s Image- forming remains fully within the logic of Benjamin’s philosophy
of history and memory. For, as Hölderlin already perceives the post- Kantian task as an …

… on Walter Benjamin's theory of language Walter Benjamin's historicism Et cetera? The historian
as chiffonnier Benjamin, … in the land of technology" Walter Benjamin's collector: the fate of …

… Holding the middle between philosophy and poetry, Benjamin’s language at the time aimed
at a Holderlinian balance between sobriety and ecstasy (mania), a non-subjective ecstatic …

Scholem, the “Theses”“he accomplished his awakening from the shock” of the pact." According
to Scholem, the “Theses” mark Benjamin's decisive break with historical materialism and …

… philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin continue to provoke controversy in the fields of
philosophy… à la carte Walter Benjamins: the Marxist literary critic, the theologian, the surrealist, the …

… Nevertheless, I believe that the philosophical coherence of Benjamin's efforts hinges on
precisely this gambit, which only comes into view when we go back – as I do here – to the early …

… , Walter Benjamin … Walter Benjamin – is that this constellation of terms when articulated
together form the basis of an exacting and highly significant contribution to political philosophy…

… Benjamin’s attempt, grounded in a philosophy of history, to render the nineteenth century as
the a priori for all critical insights into the present era, and thus to make this era intellectually …

… Nominally the subject of this study is Walter Benjamin, a European social philosopher and
critic who lived from 1892 to 1940. At the same time, it is my sincere hope that the present …

… argumentation that marks so many of Benjamin’s texts.9 It also explains why he should have
been so appreciative of Kant’s torturous, if not tortured, philosophical style of writing, which …