DE/SOBRE WALTER BENJAMIN
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DE/SOBRE WALTER BENJAMIN
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Walter Benjamin in 1936, in exile, published a small book, Deutsche Menschen (German Men & Women), a collection of letters by German literary figures of the past. He wanted to hold up examples of honest writing in a time when it seemed that all language had turned false.
Here's a letter from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-87), written after the death of his wife:
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"My wife is dead. Now I have had that experience, too. I am glad there cannot be many more such events in store for me --- that lightens my spirit. It is also a comfort to rely on your condolences, and those of our other friends in Braunschweig."
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What a letter! Benjamin quotes it as an example of the humanity of laconic style. The call to laconism may be even more urgent in today's world of oversharing and automated eloquence.
#laconism #GottholdEphraimLessing #WalterBenjamin #DeutscheMenschen #letters
"These three friends represent the three poles of Benjamin’s intellectual trajectory: Scholem embodied the messianic legacy of Judaism, Brecht the radical potential of the avant-gardes, and Adorno the attempt to turn Marxism into a theory of culture and what Benjamin called the ‘structure of experience’. All three sought to keep the critical-revolutionary tradition alive in the face of fascism."
#WalterBenjamin’s Would-Be Rescuers
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/may/walter-benjamin-s-would-be-rescuers
Memória e justiça: um dia para não esquecer
Que video de leitura e discussão maravilhoso esse do João Carvalho com o Alexandre Linck!
Como sou lerdo, assisti pela terceira vez.
"POR QUE A GENTE NÃO CONSEGUE MAIS TRANSMITIR NADA?"
https://youtu.be/r2dfYVIUdas
#quadrinhosnasargeta #assimdisseojoao #historia #sociologia #filosofia #walterbenjamin