

- Art and society, Photography in art, Mass Media, Art
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.
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- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Walter Benjamin
- First published
- 1963
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- Suhrkamp Verlag, CreateSpace, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783518124246
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“Quando Marx empreendeu a análise do modo de produção capitalista, este modo de produção estava ainda nos seus primórdios.”
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist philosopher-sociologist, literary critic, translator and essayist. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His Marxism was more influenced by Bertolt Brecht, who had developed his own critical aesthetics, which asked for the emotional distancing of the spectator (Verfremdungseffekt). An important earlier influence and friend was Gershom Scholem, who founded the modern, academic study of the Kabbalah and of Jewish mysticism. Over the last half-century the regard for his work and its influence have risen dramatically, making Benjamin one of the most important twentieth century thinkers about literatu
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