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WB's Anthropological Materialism
- Subject: WB's Anthropological Materialism
- From: "L Spencer" <L.SPENCER@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 17:58:25 +0000
Anthropological Materialism
cf. Chapter 6, pp. 55-70 of "Walter Benjamin" by Norbert Bolz an Willem van Reijen)
cf. also Burkhardt Lindner in New German Critique no. 39
As promised, a quotation (Adorno in a letter to Benjamin dated 6
September 1936) which is suggestive and intriguing. It certainly
helps me understand why I have always found Benjamin the more
rewarding writer...
"All of the points on which I differ from you, despite our fundamental and concrete agreement on
everything else, can be grouped together under the heading of an anthropological materialism to which I cannot give my allegiance.
It is as though for you the measure of concretion were the human
body."
(Adorno to Benjamin, 6 Sept 1936, Gesammelte Schriften vii s. 864)
- Thread context:
- ADORNO & JAZZ: REFERENCES (2),
Ralph Dumain Thu 13 May 1999, 21:08 GMT
- Re: FS in US,
Greg Nielsen Thu 13 May 1999, 20:55 GMT
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: FS in US,
Russell Jacoby Mon 17 May 1999, 05:32 GMT
- ADORNO & JAZZ: REFERENCES (1),
Ralph Dumain Thu 13 May 1999, 19:13 GMT
- WB's Anthropological Materialism,
L Spencer Thu 13 May 1999, 17:58 GMT
- Springsteen: make it real,
L Spencer Thu 13 May 1999, 17:40 GMT
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