Dialectic of Darkness: The Magical Foundations of Critical Theory
Dialectic of Darkness: The Magical Foundations of Critical Theory
“Dialectic of Darkness: The Magical Foundations of Critical Theory,” focuses on the German neo-pagan poet and philosopher Ludwig Klages, who formulated much of the terminology and critique of modernity as the “domination of nature” that would later become associated with the Frankfurt School. It then looks at Klages’s influence on German-Jewish philosopher and literary theorist Walter Benjamin, demonstrating that much of the terminology that seems so peculiar to Benjamin—the aura, constellations, correspondences, angels, and Ur-images—all were current in German esoteric circles while Benjamin was coming to his most important ideas.
Keywords: Ludwig Klages, Walter Benjamin, Critical Theory, Frankfurt School, aura, constellations, Neo-Paganism, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, Logocentrism, Continental Philosophy
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