Walter Benjamin for Historians
Pedagogic side of this undertaking: “To educate the image-making medium within us, raising it to a stereoscopic and dimensional seeing into the depths of historical shadows.” The words are from Rudolf Borchardt’s Epilegomena zu Dante, v. 1. [Berlin 1923] pp. 56–7. Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project (N 1, 8), 458. Certain intellectual figures inform and …