(1892-1940) German Marxist essayist, one of the most important cultural critics of the 20th century. He wrote on literature, film, art, and society. Some of his essays were collected in Einbahnstrasse/One-Way Street 1928 and Illuminationen/Illuminations 1961.
Benjamin's works are a complex and unlikely blend of Marxism and Jewish mysticism. Rejecting more orthodox Marxist esthetic theory, he was a staunch supporter of Modernism, and wrote important essays on the writers Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, and Charles Baudelaire, and on the relationship between technology, the arts, and society. + prikaži više