Who's /your guy/, Veeky Forums?
That one author that just connects with you, and you never tire of?
Benjamin is mine, I shill him here all the time. It really does sadden me to think about his death, and that he was never recognized in his lifetime. Even today he is a bit of an outcast. His eccentricities keep him from being fully respected as a philosopher, but at least he's praised as a critic.
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Read them and realize how terribly shallow and inferior this Jew is
I'm glad you like Benjamin a lot, I was turned onto his writing by Susan Sontag's essay (I never heard of him before). But a lot of philosophers/theorists never knew their work would find new audiences - would Max Stirner be surprised we're reading him in the 21st century?
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Probably Robert Walser. I just love his cheeky, ironic, joyous, melancholic, loving spirit.
Where should I start with Benjamin? I read an essay he wrote about Walser that I loved. I'm not so much interested in literary criticism, but philosophy, religion, and social criticism interests me heaps.
I'm bored of this meme.
Not OP but read The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. It's not Deleuze and Guattari-level difficult:
As a Luddite, this tickles my fancy
I never get tired of reading the political commentary embedded in most of Frank Herberts books. He was brilliantly insightful.
I love Walser too user, and Benjamin's essay on him is one of my favorites.
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is his most famous essay, and one of his most philosophically dense ones. On Hashish, Capitalism as Religion, The Origin of German Tragic Drama, The Narrator, On The Concept of History and The Author as Producer, and his essays on Baudelaire and Kafka are some of my favorites. But really, he wrote about almost everything: childhood, astrology, Socrates, toys, pornography, photography, literature by the mentally ill, communism, history, language, etc, etc. And the difficulty of the texts (and admittedly, the quality) varies drastically, some are almost impenetrable while others are straightforward and clear. Although he uses the essay as his medium, the way he can be brief and esoteric, and not overstay his welcome, reminds me of aphoristic writers like Nietzsche and Heraclitus, and he did wrote aphorisms. But it's a very peculiar method.
Benjamin is the king of bullshiters. Honestly, if you analyze him, he doesn't say anything at all, he's just constantly contradicting himself.
I'm honest, it took me a lot of time to realize it, and I tried to like him, but he doesn't have any substance at all.