Abstract This essay argues for the philosophical standing of Walter Benjamin’s early work and posits a deeper continuity between this early work as a philosopher and the subsequent development of his work as a writer. When these fragments are read in proper relation to each other, they reveal for the first time many of the key innovations of Benjamin as a philosopher, as well as his points of influence on Horkheimer and Adorno. His early ‘Program’ critiques the Enlightenment conception of experience as a means for gaining empirical knowledge, and announces the need for a new concept of experience. Benjamin follows through on this program with a method of philosophical enquiry that is by turns fragmentary and constellational, developing a series of provisional notions of experience, which form a constellation with one another: perception, mimesis, language as a medium of experience, observation and memory.

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沃尔特·本杰明的第一个哲学：对经验的星座定义

摘要本文论述了沃尔特·本杰明（Walter Benjamin）早期作品的哲学立场，并提出了他在早期的哲学家著作与后来的作家发展之间的更深层次的连续性。当这些片段相互正确地阅读时，它们首次揭示了本杰明作为哲学家的许多关键创新，以及他对霍克海默和阿多诺的影响。他早期的“计划”对“启蒙运动”的经验概念进行了批判，以此来获取经验知识，并宣布需要一种新的经验概念。本杰明遵循这个程序，采用了一种哲学探究的方法，这种方法又是零碎的和星座的，发展出一系列临时的经验概念，它们相互之间形成一个星座：感知，模仿，