Walter Benjamin’s Concept of Aura and the Aura of a Place – By Reference to Judengasse in Frankfurt
摘要
In terms of reception history, the concept of aura is closely linked to its thematisation in Walter Benjamin’s essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (Benjamin 1969 & 1980). Looking back from Benjamin’s essay, we arrive at Ludwig Klages and his concept of “primal images”,1 which in a certain sense, was the force behind Benjamin’s concept of aura.2 Looking forward from Benjamin’s essay we arrive at further literature,3 from which I will select two examples: a book by Gernot Böhme (1995) and an essay by his student Michael Hauskeller (1999).