For 10 points, name this Jewish
 philosopher of the Frankfurt School who penned "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
 Reproduction."
One essay by this author concludes that Fascism's "apotheosis of war" makes politics aesthetic, while
 communism politicizes art. At his death, this thinker left unfinished a work that considers the culture of the 
flaneur, or stroller, and calls Paris the "capital of the nineteenth century." In another essay, he claims that
 Paul Klee's Angelus Novus depicts the "angel of history." This author of The Arcades Project was inspired
 by his own translations of Baudelaire to write "The Task of the Translator." His best-known essay
 describes how art has lost its "aura" due to the invention of film. For 10 points, name this Jewish
 philosopher of the Frankfurt School who penned "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
 Reproduction."
One essay by this author concludes that Fascism's "apotheosis of war" makes politics aesthetic, while
 communism politicizes art.
Walter {Benjamin}