frogwithlittlehammer 's review for:

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin

5.0

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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I would marry this man even if it meant going crazy. Oh yes I know very well das bucklicht Männlein. The theses on the philosophy of history were very haunting, especially the idea of the angel of history. He has given me a lot to think on in terms of historical materialism and the role of art and how we interact with it. I’m still a little soft brained and I couldn’t swallow it all but many of the essays warrant a lifetime of rereads, especially once I actually read Kafka and Proust and Brecht and Baudelaire.