„Odurzony” milczeniem – Waltera Benjamina doświadczenie pasywnego milczenia

• Authors: Kowalski Jacek

Title variants

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“Intoxicated” with Silence – Walter Benjamin’s Experience of Passive Silence

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The paper “Intoxicated” with Silence – Walter Benjamin’s Experience of Passive Silence consists of three parts. The first (introductory) section highlights the notion of silence in the contextof selected works by Walter Benjamin. The second (main) section attempts to analyze the motif of so-called [passive] silence as auratic experience in Benjamin’s texts, as well as their impact on certain films and literary works. The third part first discusses the relation between the contextof Benjamin’s silence and two public practices referred to as the performances of silence, and then provides a summary of the issues considered in this paper.

Keywords

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passive silence; auratic experience; Walter Benjamin; contemporary literary and cultural studies of German-speaking countries

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Prace Literaturoznawcze
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 187-198

Contributors

author

Kowalski Jacek

Identifiers

DOI

DOI: 10.31648/pl.5665