Walter Benjamin: German philosopher and cultural critic of the Frankfurt School, 1892 to 1940.
Walter Benjamin · The source reads: “Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.… Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.” · Unpacking My Library (1931)
Walter Benjamin · The source reads: “The products of art and science owe their existence not merely to the effort of the great geniuses that created them, but also to the unnamed drudgery of their contemporaries. There is no document of culture which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.” · Edward Fuchs: Collector and Historian (1937)
Walter Benjamin · One-Way Street (1928)
Walter Benjamin · The source reads: “Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.… The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity.” · The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936)
Walter Benjamin · One-Way Street (1928)
Walter Benjamin · The Storyteller (1936)
Walter Benjamin · Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century (1935)
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