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Walter Benjamin Believed WWI Changed Human Nature, But Culture Gave A Little Hope

IDEAS Posted: August 5, 2019 5:45 am

It seemed like a good time to republish this, LitHub decided. “In their buildings, paintings, and stories, humanity is preparing to survive culture, if it comes to that. And the main thing is, they laugh as they do it. Their laughter may sound barbaric now and again. Let it. It may be that the individual will surrender a bit of humanity to the masses who will return it to him one day with compound interest.” – LitHub

IDEAS Published: 08.02.19

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