Kracauer held that a sacred cosmos gave all things their significance.

Evidence

In an epoch pervaded with meaning, everything is referred to the divine meaning, in which there is neither empty space nor empty time in the way that these are conceived of by science. Rather, space and time form an indispensable envelope around all matters which stand in some definite relationship to meaning … The I, the You, all objects and events receive their significance from this divine meaning and arrange themselves within a cosmos of structures … the very stones are evidence for the divine being. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 268

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Kracauer’s concept of the ‘epoch pervaded with meaning’ versus scientific empty space and time.
• XREF: connects to: Kracauer held that meaning-filled epochs embed all objects in a divine cosmos; Kracauer held that a pervasive divine meaning once unified all things