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paigemcloughlin 's review for:
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
by Walter Benjamin
Some good essays like the ones on Kafka and Art in the age of mechanical reproduction still stand today. Some of the essays are a bit more obscure. I have never heard of the writer Leskow for instance. Benjamin is still important for the essays on reproduction and art and the Kafka essay above. I know he is supposed to be a Marxist but the connection strikes me as a bit tenuous as it does for other colleagues at the Frankfurt school despite how much the right loves to equate them with it in their fevered imaginings. No doubt the Frankfurt school was mostly Marxist thinkers but the Marxism strikes me as a bit more incidental rather than essential.