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Walter Benjamin’s ”The Concept of History”

Theory & Philosophy

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Theology and Historical Materialism

Historical materialism is seen as this perfect solution to all of the world's problems in its investigatory capacity. Theology doesn't do that, he says; it only looks at some instances and attributes them certain value based off of its attachment to certain principles. "There is no fully perfect approach to understanding the world," Benjamin writes.

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