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As we have seen, Benjamin was deeply shocked by the outbreak of the First World War, and especially by the desertion of his youth movement friends to the banners of militarism. August 1914 was followed by a prolonged gap in the production of the previously prolific Benjamin — a silence only broken by the semi-mystical commentary on Hölderlin during that winter.
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See P. Bulthaup (ed.) Materialien zu Benjamins Thesen ‘Über den Begriff der Geschichte’ (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1975); also the writings of Peter Bürger on Benjamin, etc.
S. Unseld (ed.), Zur Aktualität Walter Benjamins (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1972) 87ff.
Theodor Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1977) 10/1, 250ff; Scholem in Zur Aktualität, 131.
See P. Gebhardt et al. (eds), Walter Benjamin — Zeitgenosse der Moderne (Kronberg: Scriptor, 1976) 126ff.
See Leszek Kolakowski, Main Currents of Marxism (Oxford: Clarendon, 1978) 2, 149ff; 3, 421ff.
See III 290/‘Literary History and Literary Science’. Also H. M. Enzensberger (ed.), Kursbuch (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, March 1970) 20, 1ff.
Franz von Baader, Sämtliche Werke (Leipzig: Bethmann, 1851–60) 4, 357n.
See W. F. Haug, ‘Wider den bloss verbalen Materialismus’, in Das Argument no. 92 (October 1975).
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Roberts, J. (1982). The Revolution — Utopia or Plan?. In: Walter Benjamin. Contemporary Social Theory. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17018-0_8
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