Why Charlie Chaplin was an ‘angel of peace’ for Walter Benjamin
Though a tramp and a misfit, Chaplin’s world fit him like a glove. His life of contingency appealed to the émigré Benjamin
by Eli Friedlander
Eli Friedlander is the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Professor of Modern Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University in Israel. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History (Stanford University Press, 2024) and Expressions of Judgment: An Essay on Kant’s Critique of Judgment (Harvard University Press, 2014).
Written by Eli Friedlander