Re: WB's Anthropological Materialism

["rc-am" <rcollins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

can you elaborate a little on 'anthropological materialism'?

Angela
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From: L Spencer <L.SPENCER@xxxxxxxxxx>


>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)
>