Walter Benjamin und Georg Simmel, (Kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien, Vol. 6)

Best known today for "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" or "Technical Reproducibility" (1936), an Urtext for modern culture and media studies and a late essay, Benjamin's early prewar starting point was actually in the youth and school reform movement in...

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Veröffentlicht in:Contemporary sociology (Washington) 2012, Vol.41 (3), p.351-353
1. Verfasser: Scaff, Lawrence A.
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Best known today for "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" or "Technical Reproducibility" (1936), an Urtext for modern culture and media studies and a late essay, Benjamin's early prewar starting point was actually in the youth and school reform movement instigated by Gustav Wyneken. All the major themes and problems are readily recognizable: the tension between mechanization and craftsmanship, the coercive power of objective forms and material objects or "things," the ambiguities in the meaning of exchange, the symbolic significance of art and its declining "aura," the rationalization of processes of production and the conditions of what passes as "work," and the human consequences of specialization and the division of labor in the money economy.
ISSN:0094-3061
1939-8638
DOI:10.1177/0094306112443520y