Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, m… - Walter Benjamin

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Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it.

Walter Benjamin

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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish literary critic and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and the Jewish mysticism of Gershom Scholem.

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Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it. - Walter Benjamin

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