Benjamin’s 1919 dissertation made art criticism a model of higher experience

Evidence

One step towards the carrying out of this programme was Benjamin’s dissertation for his doctorate in Berne in 1919, The Concept of Art Criticism in German Romanticism. The subject of this studythe concept of art criticismwas presented as the model of a higher form of experience, one which was capable of sober reflection. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 345

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Benjamin’s criticism redeemed flawed works by treating them as fragments of truth — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 354; Benjamin sought an expanded concept of experience beyond Kant’s reduced one; For Benjamin, completed criticism dissolves individual works into a dazzled idea

Broader Connections

• Benjamin’s criticism redeemed flawed works by treating them as fragments of truth #expands (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 354