Benjamin demanded that philosophy accommodate even fortune-telling and the occult.

Evidence

One of Benjamin’s more extreme formulations at this period, recorded by Scholem, was: A philosophy which cannot include and explicate the possibility of using tea-leaves for fortune-telling cannot be a true one.' This was evidence of the kind of daring contact with the occult and the obscure which Bloch, whom Benjamin met in Berne in 1918, also displayed. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 344</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)

In Benjamin’s view, Kant had established a reduced concept of experience. What had to be done now was, using what was typical in Kant's style of thinking, to undertake the epistemological foundation of a higher concept of experience', one which would allow for the logical possibility not merely of mechanical experience but also of religious experience’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 344 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Benjamin held that true philosophy must accommodate occult practices like tea-leaf reading — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 344; Benjamin sought to broaden Kant’s concept of experience to include the religious. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 344

Broader Connections

• Benjamin held that true philosophy must accommodate occult practices like tea-leaf reading #corroborates (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 344
• Benjamin sought to broaden Kant’s concept of experience to include the religious. #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 344