Benjamin believed every sentence carries multiple layers of meaning

Evidence

His interest in the Talmud and the Cabala may have led him to the conviction that multiple levels of meaning exist in every sentence. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 542

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the cabalistic inheritance behind Benjamin’s multi-layered prose and his totalizing textual practice.
• XREF: connects to: Benjamin’s thought operates on parallel discontinuous levels of allegorical meditation — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 140; Benjamin’s Passagen-Werk was structured as an awakening from the collective dream-world into history — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 858