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| Writer, born in Berlin, Germany. As an essayist and literary and social critic, he combined a dialectic-materialist approach to history with one tending towards messianistic eschatology. His works include Einbahnstraße (1928) and Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit (1936). His voluminous unfinished Passagenwerk takes the Paris arcades as a symbol of the 19th-c. |
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