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Walter Benjamin in Capri, and More

Walter Benjamin in Capri, and More

An extended holiday helped shape one of the most influential diagnoses of modernity.

Nov 26, 2024
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“An increasingly competitive spiritual marketplace.” Modernization spawned Mormonism, Caodaism, Rastafari, and other new alternative faiths... more »

Walter Benjamin in Capri. An extended holiday helped shape one of the most influential diagnoses of modernity... more »

In place of the the monastic cell of the Middle Ages, Renaissance-era scholars had the …

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