In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty.


Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1: 1913-1926 (ed. Belknap Press, 1996) - ISBN: 9780674945852

Walter Benjamin Quotes

In other words, the unique value of the authentic work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic...

In other words, the unique value of the authentic work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic...

In other words, the unique value of the authentic work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic...

In other words, the unique value of the authentic work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic...