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WALTER BENJAMIN was born on July 15, 1892, in Berlin, a time when that city had truly begun to come into its own as a metropolis.
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correct political tendency, nonsensuous correspondences, anthropological materialism, redemptive criticism, mechanically reproduced art, mimetic faculty, messianic cessation, redemptive critique, dialectical images, redeemed life, epic theater, radical communism, early aesthetics, literary struggle, profane illumination, truth content, reconciled life, theological philosophy, temporal index, archaic images, profane life, autonomous art, semantic potentials, commodity society, literary tendency
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Youth Movement, Arcades Project, One-Way Street, World War, Some Motifs, The Theory of the Novel, Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Tree of Knowledge, Golden Age, Soviet Union, Der Moralunterricht, Prince Myshkin, Threepenny Opera, Walter Benjamin, Free School Community, The Paris of the Second Empire, The Task of the Translator, Bernd Witte, Die Idee, Don Quixote, Geschichtsphilosophische Thesen, Theologico-Political Fragment, University of Frankfurt
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