This thinker outlined a secular protocol for "profane illumination" in an epistolary work inspired by Baudelaire's Artificial Paradises.
This thinker outlined a secular protocol for "profane illumination" in an epistolary work inspired by Baudelaire's Artificial Paradises. In another essay, this thinker distinguished between interweaving and intertwining roles in remembrance and forgetting, leading him to conclude "It took Proust to make the nineteenth century ripe for memories;" that work by this author describes a being that sees in all events a series of catastrophes which unceasingly pile rubble on top of rubble, which this thinker used to distinguish between historicism and historical materialism. This author of "On Hashish" and Theses on the Philosophy of History left unfinished a massive project detailing the curved structures of glass throughout Paris, The Arcades Project. In an essay on aesthetics, this author detailed the loss of the "aura" of uniqueness due to photographic works. For 10 points, identify this thinker who penned "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
This thinker outlined a secular protocol for "profane illumination" in an epistolary work inspired by Baudelaire's Artificial Paradises.
Walter Benjamin