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Walter Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in general--in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the machine age morph into... Read Full Overview

One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.

One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.

In der Reihe Klassiker in neuer Rechtschreibung gibt Klara Neuhaus-Richter die wichtigsten B cher der Weltliteratur in der empfohlenen Schreibweise nach Duden heraus. Walter Benjamin: Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit. Dritte, autorisierte letzte... Read Full Overview

Walter Benjamin discusses whether art is diminished by the modern culture of mass replication, arriving at the conclusion that the aura or soul of an artwork is indeed removed by duplication. In an essay critical of modern fashion and manufacture, Benjamin decries how new technology... Read Full Overview

Publicado originalmente en la revista Zeitschrift f r Sozialforschung, es un ensayo de 1936 escrito por el cr tico cultural marxista Walter Benjamin en el tiempo en que Adolf Hitler ya era Canciller de Alemania en un esfuerzo por describir una teor a del arte que ser a til para... Read Full Overview

Walter Benjamin discusses whether art is diminished by the modern culture of mass replication, arriving at the conclusion that the aura or soul of an artwork is indeed removed by duplication. In an essay critical of modern fashion and manufacture, Benjamin decries how new... Read Full Overview

"La importaci n que Benjamin atribuy a la pera de arte nell'epoca della sua riproducibilit tecnica (y da ci la esigenza di una edizione come questa, varianti ") risulta evidente dalla nota lettera a Kraft del dicembre del 1935: egli afferma con enfasis di ritenere di avervi... Read Full Overview

La obra de arte en la era de su reproducibilidad t?cnica es un breve tratado sobre el potencial liberador del cine o un aviso contra los riesgos de la comunicaci?n de masas. O viceversa. Walter Benjamin comprendi? que el fascismo busca su salvaci?n en dejar que las masas se expresen... Read Full Overview

Walter Benjamin discusses whether art is diminished by the modern culture of mass replication, arriving at the conclusion that the aura or soul of an artwork is indeed removed by duplication. In an essay critical of modern fashion and manufacture, Benjamin decries how new technology... Read Full Overview

En la obra de Walter Benjamin, fundamental para comprender el siglo ??, destaca esta breve pero contundente reflexi n en torno al objeto art stico y la comunicaci n de masas. Sostiene aqu el pensador que, con las nuevas posibilidades t cnicas para su reproducci n, el arte puede... Read Full Overview

"Die Begr?ndung der sch?nen K?nste und die Einsetzung ihrer verschiedenen Typen geht auf eine Zeit zur?ck, die sich eingreifend von der unsrigen unterschied, und auf Menschen, deren Macht ?ber die Dinge und die Verh?ltnisse verschwindend im Vergleich zu der unsrigen war. Der... Read Full Overview

Se suele decir que el ideal de libro de Benjamin era un texto compuesto enteramente de citas, en que el autor fuese solo el compaginador, en el sentido cinematogr fico del t rmino, estrictamente una cuesti n de montaje en la cual la autor a pareciera borrarse. Pero en estas... Read Full Overview

Walter Benjamin: Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit. Die drei deutschen Fassungen in einem Band Vollst ndige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Rembrandt... Read Full Overview