He argued that art had been separated from ritual, making it useful for promoting revolution because of the loss of aura, and he argued that any translation deforms the original text in The Task of the Translator.
This author of "Agesilaus Santander" had a relationship with the Latvian revolutionary Asja Lacis which led him to briefly move to the Soviet Union, resulting in his Moscow Diary. He claimed to see the storm of progress in a Paul Klee painting in his Theses on the Philosophy of History. This man used the term "profane illumination" to describe his experiences taking the titular drug in On Hashish. This man sought to liberate "true history" by representing and critiquing the bourgeois experience in the glass-roof shopping malls of Paris, resulting in his The Arcades Project. He argued that art had been separated from ritual, making it useful for promoting revolution because of the loss of aura, and he argued that any translation deforms the original text in The Task of the Translator. For ten points, name this 20th century German Marxist and Frankfurt School member best known for The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
This author of "Agesilaus Santander" had a relationship with the Latvian revolutionary Asja Lacis which led him to briefly move to the Soviet Union, resulting in his Moscow Diary.
Walter {Benjamin}