Jurgen Habermas tries to explain and criticize Walter Benjamin’s philosophy and communicate new ways of using this philosophy in “Walter Benjamin: Consciousness-Raising or Rescuing Critique.”
In “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Benjamin argues that art is no longer profanely illuminating–life no longer seems inexplicably magical– because the aura (the unconsciously mirroring [...]
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Habermas, Jurgen : Walter Benjamin: Consciousness-Raising or Rescuing Critique
Posted in Benjamin, Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, historical materialism, progress on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Theodor Adorno: Progress
Posted in Adorno, Benjamin, Dialectic of Enlightenment, Horkheimer, Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, critical theory, progress, regression on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The basic goal of Theodor Adorno’s “Progress” is made apparent in the very first sentence: to provide a clear, theoretical and philosophical understanding of the concept of progress. Though he does not clarify until later, the author is referring to the progress of humanity in the widest possible sense. Simply contemplating this task [...]
Summary: The Work of Art in The Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Posted in Benjamin, Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In his essay, “The Work of Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, Walter Benjamin discusses a shift in perception and its affects in the wake of the advent of film and photography in the twentieth century. He writes of the sense changes within humanity’s entire mode of existence; the way we look and see [...]
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