Category: Society and people's livelihood

Analysis:

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), Jew. He is a rare genius in the 20th century, a true genius, and "the last intellectual in Europe". Benjamin's life is a drama of ups and downs. His Kafkaesque delicacy, sensitivity, and fragility did not allow him to hide quietly in a fixed night, but drove him to wander throughout Europe to experience shock. Benjamin's loneliness is loneliness against the background of noise and movement. This loneliness both makes people despair and inspires hope. Benjamin's writing always hovers between despair and hope, between the public and theology. This kind of writing is in This leads to a somewhat warm ethical attitude. Warmth is one of Benjamin's characteristics. His identity, his career, his themes, his writings, his beliefs, his space, and his few words are all uncertain and difficult to classify. . There is only one thing that is truly certain, and that is his erudition, talent and keen dialectical understanding. It is this kind of integration that left a huge background and a space for thinking in the 20th century.

Walter Benjamin was born in Berlin, Germany, on July 15, 1892. His father was a German Jew and a successful antique dealer. Benjamin studied philosophy in Freiburg, Munich, Berlin and Bonn. In 1919, he obtained a doctorate from the University of Bonn with the article "Art Criticism of German Romanticism", but failed to obtain the qualification of university professor. His professorial thesis "The Origin of German Tragedy" was rejected by the University of Frankfurt and was evaluated as "like a muddy mess, making people confused". But ironically, the book has now become a classic of literary criticism in the 20th century.

Main works:

In 1900, "Childhood in Berlin"

"Berlin Chronicle"

In 1919, doctoral thesis "Germany" The Concept of Romantic Art Criticism"

"On Goethe's (Affinity)"

1925, "The Origin of German Tragedy"

"One-Way Street"< /p>

"Art Works in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

"Paris Arcades"