“It would be just as wrong to certify Walter Benjamin today as a literary critic and essayist, as in 1924 to certify Kafka as an author of short stories and novels ... He was a man of gigantic learning, but did not belong to scientists| he dealt with texts and their interpretation, but was not a philologist | he was attracted not by religion, but by theology and the 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 quotes | … he wrote a book on the German Baroque and left a huge work in progress on nineteenth century France, but he was not a historian of literature or anything else. I hope to show that he was a master of poetic thought, but he was neither a poet nor a philosopher…”Hannah ArendtThe publisher's layout has been saved in a4.pdf format.