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Quotes from The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism — Walter Benjamin

1892–1940 Germany

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The critic does not pass judgment on the work; rather, art itself passes judgment, either by taking up the work in the medium of criticism or by rejecting it and thereby appraising it as beneath all criticism.

The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism (1919)

For the Romantics and for speculative philosophy, ... to be critical meant to elevate thinking so far beyond all restrictive conditions that the knowledge of truth sprang forth magically, as it were, from insight into the falsehood of these restrictions.

The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism (1919)

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