Krytyka sztuki i ironia formalna w rozprawie berneńskiej Waltera Benjamina. Refleksje na temat dwóch kluczowych terminów wczesnego romantyzmu

Abstract

The article examines Walter Benjamin’s dissertation Der Begriff der Kunstkritik in der deutschen Romantik (The Concept of Art Criticism in German Romanticism), written between 1918 and 1919 and published in 1920. It is at least from the publication of L’Absolu by Philip Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy40 that the article obtained a central status in the research into Romanticism. This centrality, as Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy rightly pointed out, is based on the fact that Benjamin’s dissertation is focused on understanding early Romantic aesthetics as a cultural phenomenon that is not based on literature, music or art in general, but should be considered above all through philosophical questions.