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Benjamin's early reception in the United States can be broken into eight phases: 1) a few notices of his work in the 1930s; 2) the appearance of two major works, without translation, in the 'Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung', when it was published in New York and mimeographed in Los Angeles; 3) several reports of his suicide along with the death of other Jewish and left-wing writers who fell victim to Nazi terror; 4) scattered use of his work in the late 1940s and 1950s; 5) a growing realization in the early 1960s that American literary and cultural criticism was missing something of significance by neglecting Benjamin's work; 6) the appearance in the 1960s of competing portraits of Benjamin by four of his surviving friends, including Hannah Arendt, who edited and introduced the first collection of his writings in English; 7) an uncanny repetition of the earlier neglect, as a significant number of Benjamin's texts are published in Great Britain during the 1970s and early 1980s but remain unavailable in the States; 8) the beginning of a sustained critical engagement with Benjamin in the late 1970s.
Der Philosoph und Komparatist Peter Fenves befasst sich in seinem Aufsatz mit Benjamins Ideen zur Wissenschaftspopularisierung und seiner Auseinandersetzung mit der theoretischen Physik. Er widmet sich insbesondere Benjamins Verteidigung der in Misskredit stehenden Wissenschaftspopularisierung, die eine neue Bedeutung und Funktion erhalten soll. Die latenten Bezüge zwischen Philosophie und theoretischer Physik zeigt Fenves am Beispiel des in der Quantenphysik verwendeten Begriffs der "Verschränkung" auf, der das Pendant zu Benjamins Begriff der "Aura" darstellt und zur gleichen Zeit von Heidegger verwendet wird.