Published: 2020-12-011

“Intoxicated” with Silence – Walter Benjamin’s Experience of Passive Silence

Jacek Kowalski
Prace Literaturoznawcze
Section: Case of the creator
https://doi.org/10.31648/10.31648/pl.5665

Abstract

The paper “Intoxicated” with Silence – Walter Benjamin’s Experience of Passive Silence consists of three parts. The first (introductory) section highlights the notion of silence in the context
of selected works by Walter Benjamin. The second (main) section attempts to analyze the motif of so-called [passive] silence as auratic experience in Benjamin’s texts, as well as their impact on certain films and literary works. The third part first discusses the relation between the context
of Benjamin’s silence and two public practices referred to as the performances of silence, and then provides a summary of the issues considered in this paper.

Keywords:

passive silence, auratic experience, Walter Benjamin, contemporary literary and cultural studies of German-speaking countries

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Kowalski, J. (2020). “Intoxicated” with Silence – Walter Benjamin’s Experience of Passive Silence. Prace Literaturoznawcze, (8), 187–198. https://doi.org/10.31648/10.31648/pl.5665

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