![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His correspondence reads like a who’s who of the German-speaking intellectual world. His writing regularly appeared in the influential German weekly Die Literarische Welt, as well as premier newspapers in Cologne and Frankfurt, and journals edited or published by distinguished figures like Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Thomas Mann, and Max Horkheimer. ONE OF THE IRONIES of Walter Benjamin’s legacy is that his name has gained such traction in what he once called the “all-consuming and insatiable maw of culture.” It’s not so much - as is more commonly the case with dead writers - that Benjamin was mired in obscurity during his lifetime and only gained prominence posthumously, through luck and the dedicated custodianship of his literary estate. ![]()
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