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More Than Life - Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art (Paperback)
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More Than Life - Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art (Paperback)
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More Than Life: Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art is the
first book to trace the philosophical relation between Georg Simmel
and his one-time student Walter Benjamin, two of the most
influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. Reading
Simmel's work, particularly his essays on Michelangelo, Rembrandt,
and Rodin, alongside Benjamin's concept of Unscheinbarkeit
(inconspicuousness) and his writings on Charlie Chaplin, More Than
Life demonstrates that both Simmel and Benjamin conceive of art as
the creation of something entirely new rather than as a mimetic
reproduction of a given. The two thinkers diverge in that Simmel
emphasizes the presence of a continuous movement of life, whereas
Benjamin highlights the priority of discontinuous, interruptive
moments. With the aim of further elucidating Simmel and Benjamin's
ideas on art, Stephane Symons presents a number of in-depth
analyses of specific artworks that were not discussed by these
authors. Through an insightful examination of both the conceptual
affinities and the philosophical differences between Simmel and
Benjamin , Symons reconstructs a crucial episode in
twentieth-century debates on art and aesthetics.
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