WALTER BENJAMIN (1892 -1940) Life and Work: Part Two Working for German publications, Walter Benjamin earned enough money to spend some months in Paris where, in 1927, he began his famous and unfinished Arcades Project. As one would imagine, he and his wife Dora...
WALTER BENJAMIN (1892 -1940) Life and Work: Part One Like many Jewish intellectuals in Germany, Walter Benjamin considered himself “German”. His family was privileged and fully assimilated into the larger German society. It would be this stratum of German society...
THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL AND CRITICAL THEORY, PART TWO It was the fate of the Frankfurt School, or the Institut für Sozialforschung, to be in the wrong place doing the right thing. The members of the School, Max Horkheimer, Friedrich Pollock, Herman Marcuse, Franz...
THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL AND CRITICAL THEORY PART ONE “A categorical imperative has been imposed by Hitler upon unfree mankind; to arrange their thoughts and actions so that Auschwitz will not repeat itself, so that nothing similar will happen.” Theodor W....
Das Staatliche Bauhaus The Fate of the Bauhaus Buildings The decline of the school probably began in 1928 when the founding Director, Walter Gropius departed but the last two directors were under pressures that Gropius escaped. Mies was able to do little more to save...
Das Staatliche Bauhaus The Decline of the Bauhaus The town fathers of Weimar disliked the high number of Jewish faculty, the surprising presence of too many women as students, and the supposedly left-wing politics of the school and its insistent modernity. In a move...
