1892
Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (died 1940)
Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (died 1940)
Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (died 1940)
Walter Benjamin
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
- Born
- 1892
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Jewish mysticism, Western Marxism, and post-Kantianism, he made contributions to the philosophy of history, metaphysics, historical materialism, criticism, and aesthetics, and had an oblique but overwhelmingly influential impact on the resurrection of the Kabbalah by virtue of his life-long epistolary relationship with Gershom Scholem.