Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin. — Avital Ronell Copy Share Image
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The difference between a person who appreciates books, even loves them, and a collector is not only degrees of affection, I realized.… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Copy Share Image
“Briskly aestheticizing politics, this predecessor of today’s live-streaming militants outlined a likely endgame for a world in which, as Walter Benjamin wrote,… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“It" is the idea of him or her that resides in us--inspired by the "Something" in them, as Pope has it, "That… — Joseph Roach Copy Share Image
“The research projects that I have recently undertaken have shown me that our modern societies, which claim to be secular, are, on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in… — Steve Stern Copy Share Image
“(Mind you, according to Walter Benjamin, the twentieth century’s great philosopher of collecting, browsing and what we’d now call vintage shopping, ‘the… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin… — Istvan Deak Copy Share Image
“Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance—nothing more," says the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
“Reading Proust nearly silenced Virginia Woolf. She loved his novel, but loved it rather too much. There wasn’t enough wrong with it—a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Walter Benjamin talks about art losing its original "aura" in an age of mechanical reproduction. In writing memoir, we're taking something that… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it’s said, as you read a book. But the metaphor… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
