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SCOTT HORTON?Benjamin?s Second Historical Thesis and Hofmannsthal?s ?On the Transitory? |
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Contributed by Scott Horton
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Walter Benjamin is a vogue figure among post-modernists in American academia. I?ve been to a number of conferences at which speakers quote his works, usually followed by a grating mispronunciation of his name and some silly po-mo interpretation of his writing. I wonder how Benjamin would rate his late-found notoriety and the metamorphosis of his thought that it presents. But Benjamin is an important writer and thinker?he?s a literary critic, a philosopher, an impressive word sculptor. . . .
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