Walter Benjamin

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Marxist theorist aesthetic theorist cultural critic essayist human literary critic philosopher translator

Walter Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist known for his influential writings on aesthetics, history, and modernity, including the seminal essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."

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Label	Occurrences
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin	1

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instanceOf	Marxist theorist ⓘ aesthetic theorist ⓘ cultural critic ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ philosopher ⓘ translator ⓘ
birthCountry	German Empire ⓘ
birthDate	1892-07-15 ⓘ
birthPlace	Berlin ⓘ
causeOfDeath	suicide ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Germany ⓘ
deathCountry	Spain ⓘ
deathDate	1940-09-26 ⓘ
deathPlace	Portbou ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor	Richard Herbertz ⓘ
educatedAt	Humboldt University of Berlin ⓘ Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich ⓘ Freiburg University ⓘ surface form: University of Freiburg
ethnicGroup	Jewish ⓘ
familyName	Benjamin ⓘ
fieldOfWork	aesthetics ⓘ cultural criticism ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ media theory ⓘ philosophy ⓘ
fullName	Walter Benjamin self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin
givenName	Walter ⓘ
hasChild	Stefan Rafael Benjamin ⓘ
influenced	Fredric Jameson ⓘ Giorgio Agamben ⓘ Hannah Arendt ⓘ Jacques Derrida ⓘ Jürgen Habermas ⓘ Susan Sontag ⓘ Theodor W. Adorno ⓘ
influencedBy	Charles Baudelaire ⓘ Franz Kafka ⓘ Friedrich Nietzsche ⓘ Georg Simmel ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ Kabbalah ⓘ surface form: Jewish mysticism Kabbalah ⓘ Karl Marx ⓘ
language	German ⓘ
mainInterest	aesthetics ⓘ history ⓘ mass media ⓘ modernity ⓘ urban experience ⓘ
mannerOfDeath	suicide ⓘ
movement	Frankfurt School ⓘ Western Marxism ⓘ
notableConcept	aura ⓘ constellation (philosophy) ⓘ dialectical image ⓘ
notableWork	Berlin Childhood around 1900 ⓘ One-Way Street ⓘ The Arcades Project ⓘ The Origin of German Tragic Drama ⓘ The Task of the Translator ⓘ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ⓘ Theses on the Philosophy of History ⓘ
religion	Judaism ⓘ
residence	Berlin ⓘ Paris ⓘ
spouse	Dora Sophie Pollak ⓘ
subjectOf	The Arcades Project ⓘ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ⓘ Theses on the Philosophy of History ⓘ

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