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Work #1676 · Middle (composed during exile)

Berlin Childhood Around 1900

Walter Benjamin
1932-1938 composition; posthumously published 1950 · German
Autobiographical-philosophical childhood vignettes · Critical theory / Jewish-Marxist autobiographical reflection / philosophical childhood memoir

Benjamin's 1932-38 'Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert' — autobiographical-philosophical childhood memoir composed in exile

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Attribute Berlin Childhood Around 1900 (Middle (composed during exile))
Time · Extent Finite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Finite
Space · Ontological Status Relational
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Finite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Multiple
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Immediate
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Partial
Observer · Physicality Both
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Impersonal
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Finite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Relational
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

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Time

Berlin Childhood Around 1900

1932-38 composition; 1950 posthumous publication.

Space

Berlin Childhood Around 1900

European exile / Berlin childhood as referent.

Matter

Berlin Childhood Around 1900

Autobiographical vignettes.

Observer

Berlin Childhood Around 1900

Middle Benjamin in exile.

Energy

Berlin Childhood Around 1900

Autobiographical-elegiac-philosophical energies.

Information

Berlin Childhood Around 1900

Single posthumous memoir.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Berlin Childhood Around 1900

One of the great twentieth-century philosophical-autobiographical memoirs.