61. Benjamin, Walter. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 2001. benjamin, walter. 1892–1940, German essayist and critic. He is known for his synthesis of eccentric Marxist theory and Jewish messianism. http://www.bartleby.com/65/be/BenjW.html

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62. Walter Benjamin Quotes And Quotations - BrainyQuote walter benjamin Quotes, All religions have honored the beggar. walter benjamin Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/walter_benjamin.html

BrainyDictionary BrainyEncyclopedia BrainyGeography BrainyHistory BrainyQuote BrainyZip Quote Home Quote Topics Author Type ... Quote Trivia Search Quotes A B C D ... Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site - it's Easy! Walter Benjamin Quotes All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. Walter Benjamin Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. Walter Benjamin Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up. Walter Benjamin Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. Walter Benjamin Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. Walter Benjamin It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. Walter Benjamin Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

63. Walter Benjamin 's Quotes @ PhotoQuotes.com Robert Bacon Bailey , Jonathan Bailey, David Bailey, James Barthes, Roland Bartlow, Doug Barton, Jennifer Bauchner, Shayna benjamin, walter Benn, Tony Berger http://www.photoquotes.com/ShowQuotes.asp?ID=160&Name=Benjamin,_Walter&Type=Q

64. Walter Benjamin: A 60 Años De Su Muerte Translate this page walter benjamin A 60 años de su muerte. En el pequeño poblado catalán de Portbou hace 60 años se quitó la vida walter benjamin, un 26 de septiembre. http://www.chile-hoy.de/opinion_ensayo/000922_benjamin.htm

Walter Benjamin: A 60 años de su muerte. Barcelona, Chile Hoy. Entre los días 25 y 27 de septiembre de este año se realizará en la ciudad de Barcelona la Conferencia Internacional Walter Benjamin, destinada a recordar a este destacado intelectual judío-alemán, en el sesenta aniversario de su muerte. El evento está organizado por la Sociedad Internacional Walter Benjamin, la Universidad de Barcelona y patrocinada por la Unesco. En su Comité organizador figuran personalidades como Umberto Eco, Dani Karavan, Federico Mayor, Shimon Peres, Simone Veil y Joan Clos. La figura de Benjamin ha ido creciendo con el tiempo. Tal vez la singular ubicación teórica del más heterodoxo de los integrantes de la Escuela de Francfort en relación a los debates sobre la modernidad explique en parte este fenómeno. Una particular visión que intenta conjugar elementos místicos con el materialismo más puro y duro; y su lúcida y melancólica mirada sobre todos los "desperdicios" que el progreso va dejando a su paso. Una obra que tanto por su naturaleza como por la prematura desaparición de Benjamin quedó dispersa y fragmentada, pero que contiene importantes textos sobre el arte, los medios de comunicación, los orígenes de la modernidad ,etc. En el pequeño poblado catalán de Portbou hace 60 años se quitó la vida Walter Benjamin, un 26 de septiembre. El día anterior había realizado un penoso y agotador viaje desde Francia huyendo de los nazis, y al llegar a Portbou fue detenido por la policía franquista. El anuncio de su deportación al día siguiente fue el detonante de su trágica determinación . El 25 de septiembre de este año, en el marco de la Conferencia Internacional Walter Benjamin, los participantes viajarán hasta Portbou, para rendir allí un homenaje a Benjamin e inaugurar una exposición permanente con aspectos de su vida y obra.

65. Kitaj, R.B.: The Autumn Of Central Paris (after Walter Benjamin) Mark Harden s Artchive, Kitaj, RB The Autumn of Central Paris (after walter benjamin) 19723 Oil on canvas 60 x 60 in. (152.4 x 152.4 http://www.artchive.com/artchive/K/kitaj/autumn.jpg.html

66. Literary Encyclopedia: Benjamin, Walter benjamin, walter. (1892 1940). www.LitEncyc.com. Domain Literature. Literary Critic, Cultural Critic, Marxism. walter benjamin is hard to pin down. http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=357

67. Harvard University Press/Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings/Contents Table of Contents of walter benjamin Selected Writings Volume 4, 19381940 by walter benjamin Edited by Howard Eiland, Michael W. Jennings, published by http://www.hup.harvard.edu/contents/JENWA4_toc.html

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis. Howard Eiland is Lecturer in Literature at MIT Michael W. Jennings is Professor of German, Princeton University Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings Volume 4, 1938-1940 Walter Benjamin Edited by Howard Eiland, Michael W. Jennings FRUITS OF EXILE, 1938 (PART 2) The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire Blanqui The Study Begins with Some Reflections on the Influence of Les Fleurs du mal Exchange with Theodor W. Adorno on "The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire" Review of Francesco's Macht des Charlatans A Chronicle of Germany's Unemployed A Novel of German Jews THEORY OF REMEMBRANCE, 1939 Review of Sternberger's Panorama Note on Brecht Central Park Exchange with Theodor W. Adorno on Part II of "The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire" Commentary on Poems by Brecht The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: Third Version Germans of 1789 What Is the Epic Theater? (II) MATERIALIST THEOLOGY, 1940

68. Harvard University Press/Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings walter benjamin Selected Writings Volume 1, 19131926 by walter benjamin Edited by Marcus Bullock, Michael W. Jennings, published by Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/JENWAL.html

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis. Marcus Bullock is Professor of German, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Michael W. Jennings is Professor of German, Princeton University Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings Volume 1, 1913-1926 Walter Benjamin Edited by Marcus Bullock, Michael W. Jennings Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of his work in definitive translation, under the general editorship of Michael W. Jennings. This volume, the first of three, will at last give readers of English a true sense of the man and the mans' theets of his thought. A separate volume will consist of his book The Arcades Project , the magnum opus of his Paris years. The writer Walter Benjamin emerged our of the head-on collision of an idealistic youth movement and the First World War, which Benjamin and his close friends thought immoral. He walked away from the wreck scarred yet determined "to be considered as the principal critic of German literature." But the scene as he found it was dominated by "talented fakes," so-to use his words-"only a terrorist campaign would I suffice" to effect radical change. This book offers the record of the first phase of that campaign, culminating with "One-Way Street," one of the most significant products of the German avant-garde of the Twenties. Against conformism, homogeneity, and gentrification of all life into a new world order, Benjamin made the word his sword.

69. Berlin: The City As Body The City As Metaphor benjamin, walter. b. July 15, 1892, Berlin d. Sept. 26, 1940, near PortBou, Spain. Source. benjamin, walter Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/german/berlin_class/people/benjamin.html

Introduction Benjamin, Walter Bismarck, Otto v. Brecht, Bertolt ... Wenders, Wim Benjamin, Walter b. July 15, 1892, Berlin d. Sept. 26, 1940, near Port-Bou, Spain man of letters and aesthetician, now considered to have been the most important German literary critic in the first half of the 20th century. Born into a prosperous Jewish family, Benjamin studied philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich, and Bern. He settled in Berlin in 1920 and worked thereafter as a literary critic and translator. His halfhearted pursuit of an academic career was cut short when the University of Frankfurt rejected his brilliant but unconventional doctoral thesis, Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels (1928; The Origin of German Tragic Drama). Benjamin eventually settled in Paris after leaving Germany in 1933 upon the Nazis' rise to power. He continued to write essays and reviews for literary journals, but upon the fall of France to the Germans in 1940 he fled southward with the hope of escaping to the United States via Spain. Informed by the chief of police at the town of Port-Bou on the Franco-Spanish border that he would be turned over to the Gestapo, Benjamin committed suicide. The posthumous publication of Benjamin's prolific output won him a growing reputation in the later 20th century. The essays containing his philosophical reflections on literature are written in a dense and concentrated style that contains a strong poetic strain. He mixes social criticism and linguistic analysis with historical nostalgia while communicating an underlying sense of pathos and pessimism. The metaphysical quality of his early critical thought gave way to a Marxist inclination in the 1930s. Benjamin's pronounced intellectual independence and originality are evident in the extended essay

70. Catherine Russell Associate Professor Concordia Cinema Studies Books on Reserve at Webster Library. 3Hour reserve. benjamin, walter. The Arcades Project. London New Left Books, 1977. benjamin, walter. The Arcades Project. http://cinema.concordia.ca/russell/benjamin.html

Current Projects Links Publication CV home HUMA 888 Winter 2002: Walter Benjamin Wednesday 18:00-20:00 FB-449 (1250 rue Guy) Instructor: Catherine Russell, Associate Professor, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema Office: FB 315-7 tel: 848-4657 Office hours: Thursday 14:00-16:00, Friday 14:00-16:00 for appointments, please call 848-4666 Books Ordered at Concordia Bookstore Required: Walter Benjamin. Illuminations. Ed. Hanna Arendt. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books, 1969. Walter Benjamin. The Arcades Project. Trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. Cambridge Mass: Harvard UP, 1999. Recommended: Walter Benjamin. Selected Writings Vol. 2 1927-1934. Trans Rodney Livingstone et. al. Eds. Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith. Cambridge Mass: Harvard UP, 1999. Buck-Morss, Susan. The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989. Course Description Required Reading Most of the readings listed below are taken from the three required texts: Illuminations, Reflections, and The Arcades Project. Those articles taken from other sources are marked CP, and are included in the course pack available at the Concordia Bookstore. Following the syllabus is a list of books placed on reserve at the Webster Library. Students who prefer to reach Benjamin in either French or German are welcome to use versions of the assigned readings, although you may have to look beyond the Concordia library. Syllabus 1. Jan 9 Introduction

71. Walter Benjamin Quotations walter benjamin Quotations. Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. Counsel http://www.memorablequotations.com/benjamin.htm

Walter Benjamin Quotations Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. . . . Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

72. Illuminations: Bronner Reclaiming the Fragments On the Messianic Materialism of walter benjamin. ( The Beatification of walter benjamin in The New Criterion (June, 1990), pgs. http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/bron3.htm

Reclaiming the Fragments: On the Messianic Materialism of Walter Benjamin Section One By Stephen Bronner He wished, in 1930, "to be considered as the premier critic of German literature." (Benjamin, Briefe 2 Bde. hrsg. Gershom Scholem und Theodor W. Adorno (Frankfurt/Main), 1966 2:505.) His output was already impressive. The translator of Baudelaire and Proust, he had authored The Origin of German Tragic Drama , (Note the evaluations regarding its incomprehensibility by Hans Cornelius and Franz Schutz in Walter Benjamin 1892- 1940: Eine Austellung bearbeitet von Rolf Tiedemann et. al. fur den Marbacher Magazin No. 55 , 1990, pgs. 72-3; also note the similar reception of Karl Kraus regarding Benjamin's laudatory essay on his work, pg.120ff.) Some unique autobiograpical writings for what would become Berlin Childhood Around 1900 , a compilation of aphorisms entitled One-Way Street , a few scholarly books, a remarkable set of literary studies, and numerous articles for major newspapers. But his greatest work, the thousand page compilation of notes and citations for The Arcades Project , was never completed. (On its proposed structure, cf. Susan Buck-Morss

73. HUJ - Department Of German - Walter Benjamin Chair walter benjamin Chair for German Jewish Intercultural Relations. walter benjamin. As a part of the DAAD program in Israel a long term http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/German/benjamin/benjamin.htm

Walter Benjamin Chair for German Jewish Intercultural Relations Walter Benjamin As a part of the DAAD program in Israel a long term guest-professorship was established at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the 'Walter Benjamin Chair for German Jewish Intercultural Relations'. The professorship is situated at the German Department of the Hebrew University. The teaching and research activities of the Walter Benjamin Professor focus on a wide field of interculturality in the field of German-Jewish relations, including comparative literature, cultural studies, history, literature in relation to philosophy, theology, arts. The seminars taught by the Walter Benjamin Professor are open for all students of the Humanities at the Hebrew University. Credits for seminars are given in accordance with the concerned seminars or studying programs. The Walter Benjamin Professor is part of the research group 'Theology and Aesthetic', established at the German Department in coordination with the Franz Rosenzweig Research Centre for German-Jewish literature and cultural history.

74. Walter Benjamin Translate this page walter benjamin »DAS REPRODUZIERBARE KUNSTWERK«. Ein Gegenbild, das — mindesten teilweise — verwirklicht wurde. walter benjamin und Aby Warburg. http://www.aub.dk/~mmh/Benjamin.html

WALTER BENJAMIN: VON MORTEN HANSEN Februar 1994. ERSTE INTERNETAUSGABE, ALBERTSLUND 2.5 2001. Einleitung Der Begriff Aura Zur Filmtheorie Benjamins (Benjamin, l.c., S.31). einer Walter Benjamin und Aby Warburg In einem Aufsatz hat Wolfgang Kemp die Gleichheiten und Ungleichheiten zwischen Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) und Aby Warburg (1866- 1929) dargestellt. Im zweiten Teil des Aufsatzes zieht Kemp Parallelen zwischen den unvollendeten Hauptwerken von beziehungsweise Warburg und Benjamin. Gleichzeitig hebt Kemp auch die Gemeinsamkeiten in ihren Lebensweisen hervor. Beide Autoren haben auch ihren Hauptwerke unvollendet hinterlassen. Warburgs Bilderatlas — Mnemosyne Warburg Instituts London. Das Projekt Warburgs Warburgs geplante Bilderatlas Mnemosyne Der Titel Mnemosyne 5.) W.Kemp: „Walter Benjamin und Aby Warburg“, in: kritische berichte Band 3 , 1975, S. 5-25.

75. Walter Benjamin Und Seine Bedeutung Für Die Gegenwart Translate this page Über walter benjamin und seine Bedeutung für die Gegenwart. Fallende Bomben, explodierende Granaten, sterbende Menschen im Schützengraben. http://members.surfeu.at/patrick.horvath/benj.htm

Patrick Horvath , Mat.Nr.9502353 Studienkennzahl 301 / 312 Übung zur Lehrveranstaltung "Philosophische Grundlagen kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Theorienbildung" Dr.Hartmann Sommersemester 1999 Ästhetik, Technik, Medium Über Walter Benjamin und seine Bedeutung für die Gegenwart Diese Krise wurzelt nach Benjamin nicht zuletzt in den modernen technischen Umwälzungen. Die technische Reproduzierbarkeit der Kunstwerke schritt im Laufe der Geschichte voran, um in Lithographie, Fotographie und schließlich dem Film neue Dimensionen zu erreichen. Dimensionen, die von der herkömmlichen Kunsttheorie unberührt sind. Die technische Reproduktion vermag es, das Kunstwerk aus dem Zusammenhang des Hier und Jetzt zu reißen und seiner "Echtheit" zu berauben, also seiner spezifischen Einmaligkeit, die wiederum ein Produkt seiner Geschichte ist. Die technische Reproduzierbarkeit des Kunstwerks "löst das Reproduzierte aus dem Bereich der Tradition ab" und "setzt an die Stelle seines einmaligen Vorkommens sein massenweises". Ermöglicht die Technik also Massenkunst in einer Massengesellschaft? Kritik an der Massenkunst blieben in der damaligen Zeit nicht aus. Der von Benjamin kritisierte Duhamel etwa war ein Verächter des Films. Er nennt ihn "einen Zeitvertreib für Heloten, eine Zerstreuung für ungebildete, elende, abgearbeitete Kreaturen, die von ihren Sorgen verzehrt werden...ein Schauspiel, das keinerlei Konzentration verlangt, kein Denkvermögen veraussetzt...kein Licht in den Herzen entzündet und keinerlei Hoffnung weckt als die lächerliche, eines Tages in Los Angeles ‘Star’ zu werden."

76. Salon Books | "Walter Benjamin At The Dairy Queen" By Larry McMurtry - - - -.walter benjamin at the Dairy Queen by Larry McMurtry The novelist s memoir is an elegy to vanishing breeds like novelists. http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/11/29/mcmurtry/

Search Archives Contact Us Table Talk ... Columnists Current Wire Stories Click here to read the latest stories from the wires. document.write(''); Also Today For a full list Search Salon Advanced Search Help Recently in Salon Books Book Bag One-handed reading By Susie Bright Second coming With its hip new edition of the Good Book, Grove Press aims to save the Bible from the fundamentalists. By Jonathon Keats By Judith Coburn Reviews "My Kitchen Wars" by Betty Fussell The cookbook author recounts the battles that made up her marriage. By Pete Wells The mediocrity that roared Three books probe the mystery at the core of the angry, ordinary guy who might just be our next president By Joan Walsh Complete archives for Books "Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen" by Larry McMurtry By Jonathan Miles Nov. 29, 1999 L arry McMurtry has always been an elegist; nearly every one of his 23 prior books the bulk of them novels set amid the muted vistas and bald beige plains of McMurtry's West Texas homeland is suffused with a bluesy sense of waning, of loss at half-speed. In "Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen," his first dip into the green fields of memoir, McMurtry has applied those elegiac brush strokes to the canvas of his own life. The result is a lamentation not only for himself, as he wanders into his seventh decade, but for those like him: the storytellers, the griots, the troubadours of experience. "Because of when and where I grew up, on the Great Plains just as the herding tradition was beginning to lose its vitality," McMurtry writes, "I have been interested all my life in vanishing breeds." Never has this fascination of his been so evident. Whatever subject he touches upon, even in promiscuous passing memory, antiquarian bookselling, his own oeuvre seems destined to fade gloomily away, like taillights vanishing into a blackened flat horizon.

77. Bibliografia De Walter Benjamin Translate this page El texto es el largo trueno que después retumba.» walter benjamin. La bibliografía más completa hasta 1983 se debe a Momme Brodersen walter benjamin. http://mateu.cabot.eresmas.net/Benjamin_Bibliografia.htm

La següent bibliografia crítica, de Luis Fernández-Castañeda , va apareixer en el número 1 (1995) de la revista electrònica PHILOSOPHIA BIBLIOGRAFIA BENJAMINIANA COMENTARIO CRITICO «En los terrenos de que tratamos, conocimiento sólo lo hay a modo de relámpago. El texto es el largo trueno que después retumba.» Walter Benjamin C O N T E N I D O INTRODUCCION LA RECEPCION EN VIDA (años veinte y treinta) LOS DOS INTERPRETES CANONICOS EL DISCIPULO: ADORNO EL AMIGO: SCHOLEM PRIMERA RECEPCION Y AÑOS SESENTA AÑOS SETENTA AÑOS OCHENTA AÑOS NOVENTA LINEAS DE INVESTIGACION FILOSOFIA DEL LENGUAJE-TEORIA DEL CONOCIMIENTO-TEORIA DE LA EXPERIENCIA FILOSOFIA DE LA HISTORIA-TEORIA DE LA MODERNIDAD ESTETICA CAMPOS DE INVESTIGACION PENDIENTES TRADUCCIONES DE BENJAMIN AL ESPAÑOL - AL CATALAN - AL FRANCES - AL INGLES - AL ITALIANO - AL PORTUGUES BIBLIOGRAFIA INTRODUCCION Los mejores comentarios acerca de Benjamin son los que nos han mostrado cómo leerle. Pues ése es, en el caso de Benjamin, todo el problema. Lo que él hizo con la tradición es la clave de lo que hemos de hacer con él. A continuación se traza una somera historia de la recepción de su obra y se integran en ella los comentarios que se han hecho ya «clásicos» en la exégesis benjaminiana, además de otros que simplemente se citan. Se incluyen también trabajos recientes que abren nuevas líneas de investigación. En general, se excluyen las obras de carácter introductorio, dirigidas a divulgar su pensamiento.

78. Antenati: Walter Benjamin Translate this page Storia della letteratura europea - Torna in homepagewalter benjamin. walter benjamin. walter benjamin, nato a Berlin nel 1892 (morto http://www.girodivite.it/antenati/xx2sec/_benjam.htm

Walter Benjamin Walter Benjamin Critica tra le due guerre Homepage Dizionario autori Autori aree linguistiche ... Indice storico Contesto Up Send Print Email ... Indietro Antenati Europa - la storia della letteratura europea online - an open content project

79. Bookreporter.com - WALTER BENJAMIN AT THE DAIRY QUEEN By Larry McMurtry walter benjamin AT THE DAIRY QUEEN Reflections at Sixty and Beyond Larry McMurtry Simon Schuster Fiction ISBN 0684854961. An http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/0684854961.asp

Authors On The Web Author of the Month June 2001 Books by Larry McMurtry BY SORROW'S RIVER: The Berrybender Narratives, Book 3 THE WANDERING HILL: The Berrybender Narratives, Book 2 PARADISE COMANCHE MOON ... THE LATE CHILD WALTER BENJAMIN AT THE DAIRY QUEEN: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond Larry McMurtry Fiction ISBN: 0684854961 An essay called "The Storyteller" by Walter Benjamin prompted Larry McMurtry to ponder the role of the oral storyteller in our modern world and in the lonely world of Texas his pioneer grandparents faced in the late 1800s. These ponderings, along with his thoughts on memory, writing, his grandparents and his parents, his upbringing, reading, book collecting, and the American West, give us a compelling look into the mind of one of America's more original writers. A storyteller himself, although not of the oral variety, McMurtry finds it fitting that his first foray into Benjamin's work took place at the local Dairy Queen: McMurtry undertakes a critical look at Benjamin's theory on the role of oral storytelling. A culture vastly different from the European forum with which Benjamin was used to dealing, the thinly settled American West was not especially suited to storytelling. " . . . what kind of stories arise in a place where nothing has ever happened except, of course, the vagaries and vicissitudes of individual life?" Using that question as a springboard for other discussions, McMurtry begins to recall the stories he heard as a child.

80. Benjamin, Walter: Eine Kommunistische Pädago Translate this page + benjamin, walter Eine kommunistische Pädagogik. 1929 In Ders. Über Kinder, Jugend und Erziehung. Frankfurt am Main 1969, S. 87-90. http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~koring/quellen/soz01/BENJAM01.html

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