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Research On Walter Benjamin’s Spatial Aesthetics

Posted on:2013-01-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J J GeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330395470950Subject:Literature and art
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Benjamin is "Europe’s last a free intellectuals"(Susan Sontag), affect the results of his thoughts to literature, theology, philosophy and other fields, especially in terms of space, aesthetics, and his earlier concern of modernism the relationship between literature and art and urban space, landscape, and his tireless pursuit of fragments of time,"Remembrance of the passage of space." Benjamin’s space aesthetic thought has a rich and complex cultural connotations, especially the strollers image inspired us to explore the space of its consumption in the post-modern society may have a new implication of aesthetic and cultural values.This article,from an aesthetic point of view, explore the generation and influence of the spatial theory.The main thesis has four chapters, in addition to the preamble of the first chapter of space theory in the mid-20th century mainly elaborated a theory of emergence and development of space. The second chapter discusses the aesthetic rendering of Benjamin’s space, start with the art of capitalism by the cult value to demonstrate the value of talking about, showing the multi-dimensional urban space, and discussed on the basis of the capitalist space fable. The third chapter of the spatial theory of a unique living experience in a modern space, and thus point to expand the space of redemption in the ruins of the addition to the introduction construct. The final chapter in-depth discourse Benjamin’s space aesthetic theory, mainly reflected in the post-modern consumer space.
Keywords/Search Tags:Walter Benjamin, spatial aesthetics, allegory, ruins, salvation
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