"Even the Dead Won't Be Safe": Walter Benjamin's Final Journey | The National WWII Museum | New...

On September 26, 1940, Walter Benjamin, writer, philosopher, and critic, died at the age of 48. An excerpt from the article:

"Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was one of the seminal critics of modern cultural life (literature, theater, philosophy, theology, the study of language, the metropolis and its temptations and perils, painting, architecture, photography, radio, and the motion picture). While it is disgraceful that he was never offered an academic position, typical scholarly boundaries and territorialism could not contain him. Benjamin’s intellect was prodigious, restless, and nomadic.

Some of the most important Central European intellectuals of the twentieth century befriended Benjamin and attested to his brilliance."