Beyond Use, within Reason
Adorno, Benjamin and the Question of Theology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4757176 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dorothy Kaufmann (0000-0002-4185-4550, corresponding author), David Kaufmann |
| Year | 2001 |
| Issue | 83 |
| Pages | 151 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New German Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/827792 |
| OpenAlex | W2325898247 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The theological mode of examination gains its full meaning in a turn against art that is all the more destructive for being hidden. The fundamental motif of these examinations is that the theological illumination of the works provides an authentic model with which to interpret their political aspects as much as their fashionable ones, their economic determinations as well as their metaphysical ones. One can see that this is an attitude that sets itself against that of the historical materialists with a radicalism that turns them into their opposite. Walter Benjamin1
Epistemology · Theology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2020 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |