Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].
Walter BenjaminAbout author
- Author's profession: Critic, Philosopher
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: July 15, 1892
- Died: September 27, 1940
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