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- Title
Irreconcilable: Ethics and Aesthetics for Hermann Cohen and Walter Benjamin.
- Authors
Tobias, Rochelle
- Abstract
An essay is presented on the impact of Judaism on Walter Benjamin's reflections on aesthetics for the article ""Two Poems by Friedrich Hölderlin" and the book "Elective Affinities," by Goethe. It says that Jewish art is based in the prohibition of graven images which amounts to the dissolution of images or the negation of its representations. It adds that Benjamin admits the framing of the character's death in the novel is the sacrifice which belongs to the intentions of the novel.
- Subjects
JUDAISM in literature; BENJAMIN, Walter, 1892-1940; AESTHETICS; ELECTIVE Affinities (Book : Goethe); NEGATION (Logic) in literature; DEATH in literature
- Publication
MLN, 2012, Vol 127, Issue 3, p665
- ISSN
0026-7910
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/mln.2012.0086