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The Experience of Shock Walter Benjamin and the Trauma of Modernity
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The author of the article tries to reconstruct both the way of perceiving subjectivity in the works of Walter Benjamin and the ways in which the tension between identity and history is manifested in his writings. The article concentrates on the concept of shock, developed by the philosopher during reading Baudelaire and Kafka. With this concept, it is possible to describe the transition from the narrative conception of experience to “point experience” constituted by series of sudden unconnected impulses. The moment conducing to this transition was the I World War which for Benjamin – as well as for others significant thinkers of that time – constituted an important turning point.
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9-23
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2018-12-28
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bwmeta1.element.ojs-issn-2353-0928-year-2018-volume-12-issue-2-article-8795
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