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Despite frequent claims to the contrary, the later Walter Benjamin can be thought of as a materialist, even if only as a historical materialist sui generis. He himself insists too resolutely on this title for it to be summarily refused him. His adversary in the field of historiography is said to be historicism. The polemic against historicism dominates the sixth and seventh of the Theses on the Philoso-
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