![]() Benjamin uses The Turk, a famous chess-playing device of the 18th century, as an analogy for historical materialism. One interpretation of Benjamin in Thesis I is that Benjamin is suggesting that despite claims to scientific objectivity, the historical materialism of vulgar Marxists is actually a quasi-religious fraud. In the essay, Benjamin uses poetic and scientific analogies to present a critique of historicism. Theses is the last major work Benjamin completed before fleeing to Spain where, fearing Nazi capture, he died by suicide on 26 September 1940. Ĭomposed of twenty numbered paragraphs, the brief essay was written by Benjamin shortly before he attempted to escape from Vichy France, where French collaborationist government officials were handing over Jewish refugees like Benjamin to the Nazi Gestapo. ![]() ![]() It is one of Benjamin's best-known, and most controversial works. ![]() " Theses on the Philosophy of History" or " On the Concept of History" ( German: Über den Begriff der Geschichte) is an essay written in early 1940 by German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin. Über den Begriff der Geschichte (2010 edition, Suhrkamp) ![]()
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