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• Walter Benjamin

  1940-2020: Eightieth Anniversary of Walter Benjamin’s Death. Ten Theses on His Contribution to Critical Theory

  26 September 2020, by LÖWY Michael

  A permanent exile, a dissident Marxist, a lucid anti-fascist, Walter Benjamin died in Port-Bou 80 years ago, in September 1940, after an attempt to flee Vichy’s France to Spain. Like thousands of other German Jewish and/or anti-fascist refugees, he was interned in a camp in the summer of 1939, (…)

• Walter Benjamin

  Walter Benjamin and Marxism

  February 1995, by LÖWY Michael

  Walter Benjamin, born in a bourgeois Berlin Jewish family in 1892, was not only a brilliant literary critic and sociologist of culture, but also one of the most creative modem Marxist thinkers. A friend of Bertolt Brecht, Theodor Adomo, and Gershom Scholem (the well known historian of Jewish (…)