Walter Benjamin's communism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4790237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison Ro (0000-0001-5142-0695, Monash University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 166 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 16-39 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/07255136211044183 |
| OpenAlex | W3199694871 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
What does 'communism' mean in Walter Benjamin's writing? It has been used in some quarters to claim that Benjamin has a quasi-Marxist theory of communist society. This paper will argue instead that Benjamin's communism is framed by his distinctive conception of experience and that it is understandable only through that conception. Benjamin's image of 'communist society' refers to a specific type of experience ('collective experience') rather than a type of social organization. The paper discusses the conceptual background of that image and also points out a number of the difficulties that Benjamin's conception of collective experience faces given its genesis in a model of individual experience
Aesthetics · Communism · Epistemology · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |