Benjamin sought an expanded concept of experience beyond Kant’s reduced one

Evidence

In Benjamin’s view, Kant had established a reduced concept of experience. What had to be done now was, using what was typical in Kant's style of thinking, to undertake the epistemological foundation of a higher concept of experience', one which would allow for the logical possibility not merely of mechanical experience but also of religious experience’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 344 (#expands, via linked claim)

Two of Benjamin’s central ideas formed the basis for this. The first was connected with method. From the exemplary experiences of dreaming and ecstasy, Benjamin was attempting to draw the principles of a method of perception that would go beyond the boundaries of what was usual in academic work: the principles of a sober expansion of consciousness. He found important insights here above all in Klages, Proust and the surrealists. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 811 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Benjamin sought to broaden Kant’s concept of experience to include the religious. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 344; Benjamin rooted his Theory of Experience in a childhood memory — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 1462; Benjamin built his method from dreaming and ecstasy to expand consciousness beyond academic limits — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 811 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Benjamin sought to broaden Kant’s concept of experience to include the religious. #expands (0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 344
• Benjamin built his method from dreaming and ecstasy to expand consciousness beyond academic limits #exemplifies (0.88) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 811
• Benjamin grounded his method of perception in dreaming and ecstasy. #exemplifies (0.86)
• Benjamin’s 1919 dissertation made art criticism a model of higher experience #exemplifies (0.84) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 345
• Benjamin’s own work fused mysticism and modern urban experience #exemplifies (0.82) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1494
• Benjamin rooted his Theory of Experience in a childhood memory #exemplifies (0.78) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1462
• Existentialism sought lived experience rather than explaining it away through abstract systems #corroborates (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1025
• Phenomenology demanded a transformative mode of thinking that also yielded concrete results #corroborates (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 150