The author of "The Image of Proust", "The Storyteller", and "Theses on the Philosophy of History", one essay posits that the "aura" of the title object has begun to decay, freeing that title object from a "parasitic dependence on ritual.
In one essay, this man compared Michelangelo on his scaffold painting the creation to a certain writer on his sickbed who "consecrates the countless pages which he covered with his handwriting." Another essay compares the germinative power of "seeds of grain which have lain for centuries in the chambers of pyramids" to the potency of Herodotus' anecdote about the grief of Psammenitus. That essay also compares the title figure, the author of "The Alexandrite", to a craftsman. Another essay points out how progress is a "storm blowing from paradise" and claims Klee's Angelus Novus represents "the angel of history." The author of "The Image of Proust", "The Storyteller", and "Theses on the Philosophy of History", one essay posits that the "aura" of the title object has begun to decay, freeing that title object from a "parasitic dependence on ritual." For 10 points, name this author of "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
In one essay, this man compared Michelangelo on his scaffold painting the creation to a certain writer on his sickbed who "consecrates the countless pages which he covered with his handwriting."
Walter {Benjamin}