Tag: Benjamin

“Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver,” Reviewed

A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience.

Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935)

Image via Wiki­me­dia Com­mons In his 1935 essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechan­i­cal Repro­ducibil­i­ty,” influ­en­tial Ger­man-Jew­ish...