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Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin
(; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a
German Jewish
philosopher
and
cultural critic
. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of
German idealism
,
Romanticism
,
Western Marxism
, and
Jewish mysticism
, Benjamin made enduring and influential contributions to
aesthetic theory
,
literary criticism
, and
historical materialism
. He was associated with the
Frankfurt School
, and also maintained formative friendships with thinkers such as
playwright
Bertolt Brecht
and
Kabbalah
scholar
Gershom Scholem
. He was also related by law to
German
political theorist
Hannah Arendt
through her first marriage to his cousin,
Günther Anders
.
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