Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (died 1940)

Walter Benjamin

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

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish 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…