Illuminations

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Summary: Worth the effort
Review: Walter Benjamin put everything he knew into everything he wrote. It all resonates. This makes for challenging reading - at times, it seems like what he is saying is simply too much at a tilt with everything one thinks one knows to seem comprehensible. Then, suddenly, one tilts, and the extraordinary reach, eloquence and power of this man's reading hits home. Benjamin is difficult in the only legitimate way - because what he is trying to say can be said no other way.

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Summary: Outstanding Philosopher
Review: Walter Benjamin was an extremely influencial, wonderfully insightful writer and philosopher. Allow this work may seem dated, the underlying concepts and ideas still hold true for us today. It is definetly dense material, but well forth the time and effort required to understand it