Walter Benjamin's Sparks of Holiness

Walter Benjamin's Sparks of Holiness

Brier discusses the life and works of Walter Benjamin, considered as the antecedent of many ideas that are associated with postmodernism. Benjamin wanted to perpetuate the search for elusive and traditional "sparks of holiness" necessary for rebuilding the world and remains to be the deepe...

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Veröffentlicht in:Southwest review 2003-12, Vol.88 (1), p.79-94
1. Verfasser: BRIER, PETER
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Allegory
Antecedents
Art objects
Authors
Benjamin, Walter
Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940)
Criticism and interpretation
Dialectic
Essays
German literature
History
Holiness
Literary criticism
Literary critics
Literature
Movies
Nazism
Philosophers
Political revolutions
Postmodernism
Symbolist poetry
Visual arts
Works
Writers
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Zusammenfassung:Brier discusses the life and works of Walter Benjamin, considered as the antecedent of many ideas that are associated with postmodernism. Benjamin wanted to perpetuate the search for elusive and traditional "sparks of holiness" necessary for rebuilding the world and remains to be the deepest thinker on the paradoxical relation of literature and theory, art and history.
ISSN:0038-4712
2168-5487