"Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition……" — Hannah Arendt

Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority… - Hannah Arendt
"Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had to discover new ways of dealing with the past. In this he became a master when he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by the citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power to settle down, piecemeal, in the present and to deprive it of ‘peace of mind,’ the mindless peace of complacency."

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