About
Walter Benjamin is recognized as one of the most fascinating, acute and phantasmagorical philosophers, critics and sociologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Although he was barely published in his time, his famous works include Illuminations, Reflections, Berlin Childhood Around 1900, and his unfinished collection of sketches, quotes, aphorisms and reflections on 19th century Paris , The Arcades Project, from which this blog takes its name. His tragic suicide in 1940 on the Spanish-French border in attempts to evade the Gestapo and seek intellectual safety in the United States left open thousands of questions and a wealth of lyrical and mystical masterpieces to inspire artists, social theorists and cultural snobs alike.
