A work by this author claims that our image of happiness is bound up with the image of redemption, and that every generation is thus endowed with a "weak Messianic power.
A work by this author claims that our image of happiness is bound up with the image of redemption, and that every generation is thus endowed with a "weak Messianic power." This author used the chess-playing Mechanical Turk as a metaphor for what he viewed as a failed attempt by Marx toward scientific objectivity in an essay that describes a figure who watches "one single catastrophe" while staring into the past, the subject of (*) Klee's Angelus Novus. In his best-known work, he compared the surgeon who penetrates deep into the patient's body to the cinematographer, and labeled Fascism the "aesthetization of politics." For 10 points, name this author of Theses on the Philosophy of History who described how film affected the "aura" of art in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
A work by this author claims that our image of happiness is bound up with the image of redemption, and that every generation is thus endowed with a "weak Messianic power.
Walter Benjamin