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A Study on Walter Benjamin’s Dialectical Thinking and the Truth of Philosophy of Art: Focusing on His Philosophy of Language, The Origin of German Tragedy and “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility”

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2022, 65(), pp.50-78
  • DOI : 10.17527/JASA.65.0.03
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Received : December 11, 2021
  • Accepted : January 8, 2022
  • Published : February 28, 2022

Sun Kyu Ha 1

1홍익대학교

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ABSTRACT

A unique form of “dialectic” or “dialectical thought” penetrates the philosophy and writings of Walter Benjamin. For him, dialectical thought was the only path and method leading to philosophical truth or the truth of the philosophy of art. In this paper, I elucidate the characteristic aspects of the dialectic practiced by Benjamin in his philosophical thinking and writing, and analyze how it is related to his concept of “philosophical truth.” First, how Benjamin’s dialectical thought was formed is immanently reconstructed through two early articles, “Language in General and Human Language” and “The Translator’s Task,” the central texts of his philosophy of language. The goal of the reconstruction is to clearly show the main characteristics of dialectical thinking explained in the two texts and the thought movement that develops in these characteristics. Second, I clarify the meaning of Benjamin’s philosophy of art and its theoretical intention, focusing on the “Cognition-critical Introduction,” which can be read as a “theory of philosophical truth” in The Origin of German Tragedy. In this process, it will be revealed that his dialectical thinking and the theory of truth are intimately combined. Third, in connection with the discussion of the previous two parts, the characteristics of dialectical thinking and truth of philosophy of art in “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility” are discussed. The goal of this thesis is to understand Benjamin more deeply as an original philosopher, not as a media theorist.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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