The cognitive value of cinema and images according to Walter Benjamin

Authors

  • Renato Franco Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP), Araraquara, São Paulo

Keywords:

Philosophy and cinema, Walter Benjamin, cinema, images, Critical theory, education, half education, non-identical, hope

Abstract

This paper intends to expose Walter Benjamin’s conception of film and of the nature of the images. It analyzes the thesis he developed in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” and “Little history of photography”. The paper reviews some aspects of his conception with the aim of developing those aspects which were not sufficiently clarified by Benjamin. The goal is to analyze how he developed a critical theory of images in the modernity, and also to analyze to what extent images may have an emancipatory dimension.

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Published

2016-02-19

How to Cite

Franco, R. (2016). The cognitive value of cinema and images according to Walter Benjamin. Constelaciones. Revista De Teoría Crítica, 6(6), 322–329. Retrieved from https://constelaciones-rtc.net/article/view/872