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Walter Benjamin

In Our Time: Philosophy

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What Happened to Magnify Influence in the Years After Benmin's Death?

The 19 sixties really shoot him up into begin to the super star sort of elevate an through his ideas f the work of artnteedge, mechanical reproduction and essay. The much more left wing works that seem or obviously left wing works, which are taken up by the student movement in germany. So it's really now, more recently, when his radio writings were translated m into english, that they were recognized as truly significant. In a new edition of the works was carried out in in germanys tat. And then from the eighties onwards, if the harvard translation project of ben, increasingly his his star rises in the english speaking world.

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