What Is Called Thinking?

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Walter Benjamin on the Allegorist and the Collector

Walter Benjamin on the Allegorist and the Collector

The Secular and The Religious are Not Opposites

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Zohar Atkins
May 05, 2022
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Walter Benjamin on the Allegorist and the Collector
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“In every collector hides an allegorist, and in every allegorist a collector.”

- Walter Benjamin, Arcades Project

“In every secularist hides a religious believer, and in every religious believer a secularist.”

- Zohar Atkins, Arcades Project

Walter Benjamin has a penchant for aphorisms that are at once insightful and opaque, shimmering in and out of focus.

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