Adorno:
Thinkers of major significance and power will often produce insights which
address their objects with the utmost fidelity and yet at the same time are
insights into the thinkers themselves. This was the case with Benjamin.
'Benjamin and his object of study were, so to speak, twin sides of a metaphor, or two bodies which at a certain instant and angle reflect oneanother. Benjamin's skill is to capture this moment of interface, of mutual illumination. This moment is what he called a monad.'
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