“It would be just as wrong to certify Walter Benjamin today as a literary critic and essayist, as in 1924 to certify Kafka as the author of novels and novels ... He was a man of gigantic learning, but did not belong to scientists. he was engaged in the texts and their interpretation, but was not a philologist ; He was attracted not to religion, but to theology and theological type of interpretation for which the text is sacred, but he was not a theologian and was not even particularly interested in the Bible. He was born a writer, but the limit of his dreams was a book composed entirely of quotations....he wrote a book about the German Baroque and left a huge unfinished work about nineteenth-century France, but was neither a historian of literature nor of anything else. I hope to show that he was a master of poetic thought, but he was neither a poet nor a philosopher at the same time.” Hannah Arendt pdf saved publishing layout.