Over Walter Benjamin

Referentie:

Zelnick, Stephan, review of: Wolin, Richard, "Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption", The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 42 (1983) 2, p. 233-235.

 

Plaatskenmerk:

Mijn Documenten/Filosofische bibliotheek
Zie ook: http://www.jstor.org/stable/430672 (geraadpleegd op 26.11.2011).

 

Extract:

"There is a persistent romanticism in Wolin's Benjamin: Benjamin's attraction to obscure learning and fragmentary texts, his resistence to merely scholarly reconstructions of historical moments in favor of the living spirit, his faith in the Messianic moment that could instantly admit perfection into a debased world, his rejection of Enlightenment and productivist claims for progress, his love for communal life and art, his shattering of spatial-temporal coordinates in order to see through to the special qualities of things, words, and experiences." (p. 234)