(Enter Walter Benjamin) To be distracted and become absent minded, is so to speak the condition of the possibility of the schlemiel. Walter Benjamin knew this lesson very well.  He learned if from Kafka, who learned it from Sancho Panza and Don Quixote. At the end of his Kafka essay, Benjamin notes that he is … Continue reading Students and Teachers of The Schlemiel Legacy: From Sancho Panza to Walter Benjamin