Integrity. Fragmentation - On Benjamin

Walter Benjamin is a member in Frankfurt school. He use"the unity in the fragment"this kind of research manner discuss the art changes in modern society. On the one hand, what is the fragment he said refers to common life, On the other hand, it refers to the real truth about the art. He always stand between the fragment and the unity with a glimpse, and research the Arcades in 19 century, the machine product, the writer and the prostitutes. This kind of research way is different from the Theodor·Adorno, Ernst·Bloch and Herbert·Marcuse. So it must have import meaning and make a good contribute to understand the Arcades, photos and art theory.Walter Benjamin use the complex of his thinking construct the contradictory of the modernity. Under the contradictory of his thinking, general public can has many possible to read his art philosophy. While the aim of the"unity in the fragment"is to construct his art philosophy and redemption. When emphasis on the fragment, he make the contract between the fragment and allegory. Then he analysis the modern lives make some influence on tradition lives. And fertile its value.Walter Benjamin the research way is unique. He use the fragment things in the concept of the unity, then liberate the formal. At the same time, he put the poetic flavor in his research way, then he expect put the fragment into unity redemption.