The Dangers of Aesthetics in "The Work of Art in the Era of Its Technical Reproducibility"

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Andrade, Maria Mercedes [1 ]
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[1] Univ Los Andes, Dept Humanidades & Literatura, Bogota, Colombia
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Aesthetics; Politics; Walter Benjamin; Franz Kafka; Works of Art; Technical Reproduction;
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D58 [社会生活与社会问题]; C913 [社会生活与社会问题];
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This article engages with Walter Benjamin's essay, "The Work of Art in the Era of Its Technical Reproducibility" It analyzes Benjamin's criticism of a "disinterested aesthetic" and explores the two alternatives that he suggests the aestheticization of politics and the politicization of aesthetics. In order to illustrate the warnings that Benjamin makes regarding the "dangers of aesthetics," the article makes a comparison with Franz Kafka's story, In the penal colony. It concludes by underlining some of the similarities between Benjamin and the German aesthetic tradition.
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