Illuminations

Name: Illuminations
Author: Walter Benjamin

by Walter Benjamin

Essays on culture, criticism, and the experience of modernity

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Walter Benjamin

German-Jewish cultural critic and philosopher whose fragmentary, aphoristic essays on art, history, and modernity are among the most discussed texts in the humanities. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is the most cited essay in art history. He died fleeing the Nazis at the Spanish border.

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