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Walter Benjamin, a Rare card
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 178
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 270,000
Power 178 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Jewish mysticism, Western Marxism, and post-Kantianism, he made contributions to the philosophy of history, metaphysics, historical materialism, criticism, and aesthetics, and had an oblique but overwhelmingly influential impact on the resurrection of the Kabbalah by virtue of his life-long epistolary relationship with Gershom Scholem.
- In popular culture and left-wing journalism he often appears as an exemplar whose experience is representative of the tragedy of German Jewish intellectuals under Nazi Germany.
- Of the hidden principle organizing Walter Benjamin's thought Scholem wrote unequivocally that "Benjamin was a philosopher", while his younger colleagues Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno contend that he was "not a philosopher".
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Walter Benjamin article was read about 270,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Walter Benjamin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Photo d'identité sans auteur, 1928, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

