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Kulturowy performance – Waltera Benjamina doświadczenie snu
Cultural Performance – Walter Benjamin’s Experience of Dreaming

Author(s): Jacek Kowalski
Subject(s): Philosophy, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: dream; performance; auratic experience; Walter Benjamin; contemporary culture

Summary/Abstract: This paper consists of four parts. The first analyses the phenomenon of the dream as auratic experience; the second synthesises Benjamin’s experience of the dream with reference to recent research; the third explores Benjamin’s experience of the dream across his output; the fourth attempts to understand contemporary dream activities (on the basis of the works by a performer – Joanna Rajkowska) through Benjamin’s experience of dream.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 40-55
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish