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Walter Benjamin · 1968
A collection of essays and reflections by Walter Benjamin, translated by Harry Zohn and edited with an introduction by Hannah Arendt, exploring themes of memory, art, culture, and modernity through philosophical and critical analysis.
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Modernity shatters the conditions under which meaning, tradition, and experience could once be transmitted — and the ruins are all we have left.
mind-and-cognition
For Benjamin to quote is to name, and naming rather than speaking, the word rather than the sentence, is the vessels of truth.
IER-RC-048Truth is not 'an unveiling which destroys the secret, but the revelation which does it justice.'
IER-RC-041The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order — join me among piles of volumes seeing daylight after two years of darkness.
IER-RC-053work-as-meaning
Traces of the storyteller cling to the story the way the handprints of the potter cling to the clay vessel.
IER-RC-079Gambling gives short shrift to the weighty past on which work bases itself — the latter lacks any touch of adventure, yet not the futility inherent in it.
IER-RC-148mortality
He was a failed mystic living amid failed sanctities, struggling against the failures — his hunger for secret knowledge, initiation, revelation finally inextinguishable.
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