Theses on the Philosophy of History

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"Theses on the Philosophy of History" or "On the Concept of History" (German: Über den Begriff der Geschichte) is an essay written in early 1940 by German Jewish philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin. It is one of Benjamin's best-known and most controversial works. Composed of twenty numbered paragraphs, the brief essay was written by Benjamin shortly before he attempted to escape from Vichy France, where French collaborationist government officials were handing over Jewish refugees like Benjamin to the Nazi Gestapo. Theses is the last major work Benjamin completed before fleeing to Spain, where he died on 26 September 1940.

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