Author: Eduardo García Elizondo

Critique as Revelation, the Language, Aesthetic Appearance, and Truth in Early Benjamin

Photograph of Walter Benjanmin working in a library

The article analyzes how, in Walter Benjamin’s early philosophy of art, critique and artistic language bring about a displacement of the categories of truth and appearance, which cease to be grounded in an idealist foundation and instead become inscribed within a rhetorical-aesthetic interpretation centered on the form and expression of artworks. Read More →