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Walter Benjamin

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Art of Dreaming and the Art of Being Awake

Benjamin benyamin sees us as the generation of the fantastical relationships to these objects that become lively, that will service our dreams. He always emphasizes that history is about that moment of dialogue when we look back at the past and recognize something that people at the time didn't recognize. So it's also all about things falling out of fashion and thereby revealing to us desires that we once had and that are now unaphrodisiac as well.

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