Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

Died: September 26, 1940, Portbou, Spain Website Facebook X/Twitter

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish..

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Drip, drip, drip, drip...

by Ovid and others in Figures of Speech

Emptiness meets the metaphysics of optimism, wish-well thinking, the wellspring of creativity that begets the ah-ha moment of an action potential actualized is far from applied. Philosophy can do better. So can you. Apply yourself!

Beyond the Bell Curve Re-Lies the Out-Liar

by Walter Benjamin and others in Figures of Speech

Depending on which way you want to take this I am calling Taleb a dictator of sorts, some, like Steven Pinker, say ​​belligerent. Accused by Taleb as being a science writer I thought the ideal response would be to thank Nassim for his compliment of Science writers everywhere...

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