Aura is the modern residue of what anthropologists call the sacred.

Evidence

Aura for Benjamin is the equivalent in the modern world, where it still persists, of what anthropologists call the “sacred” in primitive societies; it is to the world of things what “mystery” is to the world of human events, what “charisma” is to the world of human beings. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 1759

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sacred languages were imagined as emanations of reality itself — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 64; Klages coined ‘aura’ for the distant archetypal quality of the world soul — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 818

Related

• Klages coined ‘aura’ for the distant archetypal quality of the world soul (similarity 0.82)
• Klages coined ‘aura’ as the distant archetypal quality of looked-at things. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Klages coined ‘aura’ for the distant archetypal quality of the world soul #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 818
• Sacred languages were imagined as emanations of reality itself #qualifies (0.78) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 64