Activity

for Benjamin, the act of remembrance through writing had a palimpsest, dialectical character that raced backwards and forwards in time

Its rage for reinventing itself and erecting very nearly bombastic architecture

we still live in a world like the one Frankfurt School excoriated

his adult exile from Germany into picaresque vagabondage and tragic death on the run from the Nazis aged forty-eight in 1940

the cosseted German childhoods of these thinkers as they were raised by and rebelled against their fathers