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the remarkably prescient work of an intellectual truth-seeker

  • Written by: Jamie Q Roberts, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Sydney
the remarkably prescient work of an intellectual truth-seekerWalter Benjamin's membership card for the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1940).Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

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