Ferris, David. "'Truth is the Death of Intention': Benjamin's Esoteric Concept of Romanticism." Studies in Romanticism 31, (Winter, 1992). Gasche, Rodolphe. "The Sober Absolute: On Benjamin and the ...
The thinker is Walter Benjamin and the phrase is taken from his classic essay “The Work of Art and in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” A German-Jewish intellectual, Benjamin saw the ...