by Walter Benjamin · Suhrkamp Verlag AG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518461969
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«Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit» is the essay on philosophy and art theory by Walter Benjamin, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in paperback, in German.
Benjamin analyses how technical reproduction transforms the perception of art, focusing on the loss of the «aura» of the work in the age of photography, film and the printing press, and on the social and aesthetic changes it entails. The essay reflects on the link between the work, its mass reproduction and the cultural experience of modernity, with quotations that underline the relevance of the phenomenon beyond the artistic sphere.
The text dates from 1936 and is presented here as number 4196 of the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch collection. This paperback edition has 76 pages.
Recommended for students of philosophy, art theory and communication, as well as for readers interested in the effects of technology on culture.
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Jewish mysticism, Western Marxism, and post-Kantianism, he made contributions to the philosophy of history, metaphysics, historical materialism, criticism, and aesthetics, and had an oblique but overwhelmingly influential impact on the resurrection of the Kabbalah by virtue of his life-long epistolary relationship with Gershom Scholem.
