Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin (July 15, 1892 – September 27, 1940) was a German Jewish Marxist literary critic and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and the Jewish mysticism of Gershom Scholem.
Slavoj Žižek
Further information about Walter Benjamin can be found in the following reference(s):
- Žižek, Slavoj. The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology. London: Verso, 1999.
- revolution as repetition 20
- revolutionary gaze 89
- Žižek, Slavoj. Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991. p. vii
- Žižek, Slavoj. The Fragile Absolute, or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For. London and New York: Verso. p. 89
