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25 years ago Wikipedia was a dream. A dream built piece by piece by people, not machines. Now, with 65 million articles and 260,000 volunteers across the world, Wikipedia is proof that knowledge is human—a place of free, collaborative, and accessible knowledge. Your donation isn't just supporting a website; it's investing in the world's largest collaborative project of human intelligence—crafted by humans, for humans. Please join the 2% of readers who give what they can to help keep Wikipedia strong and growing. Thank you. Proud host of Wikipedia and its sister sites Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (/ˈbɛnjəmɪn/ BEN-yə-min; German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈbɛnjamiːn] ⓘ;[6] 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940)[7] was a German-Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Jewish mysticism, Western Marxism, and post-Kantianism, he made contributions to the philosophy of history, metaphysics, historical materialism, criticism

Walter Benjamin - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940) [[Western Marxism]]<br />[[Marxist hermeneutics]]<ref>''Erasmus: Speculum Scientarium'', '''25''', p. 162: \"the different versions of Marxist hermeneutics by the examples of Walter Benjamin's ''[[The Origin of German Tragic Drama|Origins of the German Tragedy]]'' {{sic}}, ... and also by Ernst Bloch's ''[[The Principle of Hope|Hope the Principle]]'' {{sic}}.\"</ref><br />[[College of Sociology]]"},"education":{"wt":"[[University of Freiburg]]<br /

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