I have not always been as now: The fever'd diadem on my brow I claim'd and won usurpingly - Hath not the same fierce heirdom given Rome to the Caesar - this to me?
It is here that we may see Berman as the ideal descendant of Benjamin--in sharp contradistinction to the pseudo-mystical subjectivities of certain academic trends which also claim heirdom to Benjamin--reflecting the following view expressed in "The Task of the Critic" (1931): "Instead of giving his own opinion, a great critic enables others to form their opinion on the basis of his critical analysis" (Benjamin 548).
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