Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈbɛnjamiːn];^[3] 15 Julie 1892 – 26 September 1940)^[4] wis a German Jewish philosopher, cultural creetic an essayist. An eclectic thinker, combinin elements o German idealism, Romanticism, Wastren Marxism, an Jewish mysticism, Benjamin made endurin an influential contreibutions tae aesthetic theory, leeterar creeticism, an historical materialism.

Walter Benjamin
Benjamin in 1928
Born	15 Julie 1892(1892-07-15) Berlin, German Empire
Dee'd	26 September 1940(1940-09-26) (aged 48) Portbou, Catalonie, Spain
Era	20t-century philosophy
Region	Wastren philosophy
Schuil	Wastren Marxism Marxist hermeneutics[1]
Main interests	Leeterar theory, aesthetics, philosophy o technology, epistemology, philosophy o leid, philosophy o history
Notable ideas	Auratic perception,[2] aestheticisation o politics, the flâneur
Influences Adorno · Bachofen · Baudelaire · Brecht · Kafka · Lukács · Marx · Proust · Rickert · Scholem
Influenced Adorno · Arendt · Derrida · Scholem · Sontag · Taussig · Löwy · Buck-Morss · Perret · Agamben