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The first Internationale Walter Benjamin Gesellschaft (generally translated as "
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" or "
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"), here understood as " commune", was a founding within the 68er-Bewegung in
Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...
, at the time when the American
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reached Europe's students.


Formation

Founded by
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in 1968 and supported by
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and other cultural patrons, the institute worked until the end of 1973.


Goals

The institute sought to intensify the knowledge of Walter Benjamin's works. One important goal of the society was to propagate and promote Benjamin to a global prototype of theory of revolutionary change such as
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. Another important goal was to combine Benjamin's elitist insights with the mass phenomenon of
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.


Re-Establishment

A globally orientated discourse has been launched by a new International Walter Benjamin Society in
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in 2000. It wishes to bring together "scientists and interested readers from all over the world" and organizes "large conferences every two years to Walter Benjamin, and related topics"Cf. International Walter Benjamin Societ
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See also

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Walter Benjamin Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (; ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish ...


External links


International Walter Benjamin Society
(current)


Notes

{{reflist Counterculture Walter Benjamin Cultural organisations based in Germany Political advocacy groups in Germany