Walter benjamin an intellectual biography

          Walter Benjamin () was the quintessential European intellectual between the two world wars.

        1. Walter Benjamin () was the quintessential European intellectual between the two world wars.
        2. Walter Benjamin () was the quintessential European intellectual between the two world wars.
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          Walter Benjamin

          German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)

          Walter Benjamin

          Benjamin in 1928

          Born

          Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin


          (1892-07-15)15 July 1892

          Berlin, German Empire

          Died26 September 1940(1940-09-26) (aged 48)

          Portbou, Catalonia, Francoist Spain

          Cause of deathSuicide by morphine overdose
          EducationUniversity of Freiburg
          University of Berlin
          University of Bern(PhD, 1919)
          University of Frankfurt (Habil.

          cand.)

          Era20th-century philosophy
          RegionWestern philosophy
          SchoolContinental philosophy
          Western Marxism
          Marxist hermeneutics[1]

          Main interests

          		Literary theory, aesthetics, philosophy of technology, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of history

          Notable ideas

          		Auratic perception,[2]aestheticization of politics, dialectical image,[3] the flâneur

          Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (BEN-yə-min; German:[ˈvaltɐˈbɛnjamiːn]