Predictions Or Fable

Walter Benjamin, one of the most influential critics of the20th century, in-depth and fruitful research in the field of literature, aesthetics, popular culture and mass media. Although most theoretical writings, Benjamin will be considered a member of the Frankfurt School, but the fact that Benjamin and the Frankfurt School have a very different research methods and academic ideologically. Benjamin sensitive to observe that in the era of advanced capitalism, the characteristics of art and functional changes those mechanical reproduction techniques on the one hand resulted in the passage of the "aura", on the other hand, the art to the broader public. Meanwhile, as the "melancholy" Benjamin also perspective into the same melancholy Baudelaire and Kafka who, trying to dig out from them the seeds of modernity. Starting from studies of Baudelaire, Benjamin proposed a series of shocked the Western intellectual concept of "experience" and "experience", and began the idea that the unprecedented massive project-"Paris Arcades. In the end, Benjamin will be attributed to art and modem way of salvation of the human to the top of the Messiah’s salvation. With a mysterious religious destination seems only Benjamin can be raised.Benjamin’s book, to summarize and organize a literary dissemination of ideas of Benjamin, is divided into four parts. The concept of technology combined with Benjamin in the first chapter, the view of language, comprehensive study of Benjamin’s mechanical reproduction of works of art of the times. Start of the second part of the writings of Baudelaire and Paris from Benjamin to explore the profound impact of the developed capitalist era rise of the city for writers and readers, these effects include:the polymerization of the public experience the disappearance of consumer the rise. Paris as a typical representative of the modern city, of Benjamin’s best slice. The third part of the cultural industrial and political aesthetic as a starting point for the alienation of the art in the culture of the industrial age and ideology-driven society, and how to handle the problem. The fourth part of Benjamin’s Messiah theory, in order to find out the road in this day and age the art of transcendence and redemption.