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        Brecht, B. et al (2007). Presentation III. In Brecht, B. et al Aesthetics and Politics. Verso, pp. 100-109

relating to stone and gems and the work involved in engraving, cutting, or polishing

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the psychologistic subjectivism and ahistorical romanticism which he believed he could see beneath the dense and lapidary brilliance of Benjamin's text

—p.102 by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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the psychologistic subjectivism and ahistorical romanticism which he believed he could see beneath the dense and lapidary brilliance of Benjamin's text

—p.102 by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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(adjective) of or relating to dreams; dreamy

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oneiric version of commodity fetishism

—p.104 by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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oneiric version of commodity fetishism

—p.104 by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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(noun) a reversal of circumstances, or turning point; Anglicised form of the Greek "peripeteia"

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specific contents of Baudelaire's poetry were directly reduced to economic peripeteia of the time

—p.104 by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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specific contents of Baudelaire's poetry were directly reduced to economic peripeteia of the time

—p.104 by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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7 years, 2 months ago

(noun) the performance of miracles / (noun) magic

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credulous believer in the thaumaturgical virtue of 'calling things by their names'

—p.106 by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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credulous believer in the thaumaturgical virtue of 'calling things by their names'

—p.106 by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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(noun) use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter form of expression / (noun) an instance of periphrasis

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adept practitioners of the diplomatic art of euphemism and periphrasis, that knowingly does not call things by their name

—p.106 by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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adept practitioners of the diplomatic art of euphemism and periphrasis, that knowingly does not call things by their name

—p.106 by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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7 years, 2 months ago

regarding something abstract as a material thing (fallaciously); an effect of reification

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Benjamin, following Brecht, tended to hypostasize techniques in abstraction from relations of production

—p.107 by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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Benjamin, following Brecht, tended to hypostasize techniques in abstraction from relations of production

—p.107 by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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(noun) a painkilling drug or medicine

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a past and future stretching far beyond the anodyne riffs to which he confined it

editorialising on Adorno's analysis of jazz

—p.107 by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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a past and future stretching far beyond the anodyne riffs to which he confined it

editorialising on Adorno's analysis of jazz

—p.107 by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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(adj) exhibiting different colors, especially as irregular patches or streaks

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an extremely complex and variegated set of dialectical relationships between 'high' and 'low' and 'avant-garde' and 'popular'strands

—p.108 by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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an extremely complex and variegated set of dialectical relationships between 'high' and 'low' and 'avant-garde' and 'popular'strands

—p.108 by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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Aesthetics and Politics
by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

Aesthetics and Politics
by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

Aesthetics and Politics
by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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oneiric (en)

peripety (en)

thaumaturgy (en)

periphrasis (en)

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Aesthetics and Politics by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

Aesthetics and Politics by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

Aesthetics and Politics by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin