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Walter Benjamin

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Benjamin's Essays on Literature - It's the Only Way You Can Captulate, for Listens to This Programme

Benjamin was an applied thinker. He wanted to really encounter everyday life, eve day objects and material culture. His project is quite similar to that of sigmund freud who also tried to really engage with what it's like to be human. But he didn't write about them in a grand system or some sort of big, overarching philosophical theory. And i think that really sets him apart from what you could call philosophers with a capital p - they are off putting to read. Think benyamin.

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