benjaminian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin or his views.
Example Sentences
- "[…] different perspectives on the applicability of Benjaminian positions for the practice of a cultural history."
- "He further finds that: “Gewalt, by means of the conversion it effects, transforms itself into another Gewalt; violence becomes power and authority.” Hannah Arendt, for whom power and violence are firmly distinguished, would surely object to this formulation, but it remains unclear whether she would have a sufficient rejoinder to the problem of legal violence, whether in its Benjaminian or Hobbesian form."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more Benjaminian (comparative)
most Benjaminian (superlative)