4/8/2019 0 Comments Benjamin![]() • • • • • • • • • • Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin ( German:; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a philosopher, and. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of,,, and, Benjamin made enduring and influential contributions to,, and. He was associated with the, and also maintained formative friendships with thinkers such as and scholar. He was also related by law to through her first marriage to his cousin,. Among Benjamin's best known works are the essays 'The Task of the Translator' (1923), ' (1936), and ' (1940). ![]() ![]() Benjamin BlümchenHis major work as a literary critic included essays on,,,,,,, and. He also made major translations into German of the Tableaux Parisiens section of Baudelaire's and parts of Proust's. In 1940, at the age of 48, Benjamin committed suicide in at the French–Spanish border while attempting to escape from invading. Though popular acclaim eluded him during his life, the decades following his death won his work posthumous renown. • • • Early life and education [ ] Benjamin and his younger siblings, Georg (1895–1942) and Dora (1901–1946), were born to a wealthy business family of assimilated in the Berlin of the (1871–1918). The patriarch of Walter Benjamin's family, Emil Benjamin, was a banker in Paris who relocated from France to Germany, where he worked as an antiques trader in Berlin; he later married Pauline Schönflies.
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