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

Also known as: Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin, Вальтер Беньямин, والتر بنيامين, 발터 벤야민, ヴァルター・ベンヤミン, 瓦尔特·本雅明

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Known works

  • Passagen-Werk (1989)
  • The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility, and other writings on media (2008)
  • Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit (1963)
  • Schrift, Bilder, Denken: Walter Benjamin und die K unste. Ausstellung, 29. Oktober 2004 - 31. Januar 2005
  • Illuminationen (1961)