Walter Benjamin's concept of aura

In this new video from Unprofesor we will explain Walter Benjamin's concept of aura. Walter Benjamin's concept of aura is a fundamental concept in the philosophical terrain of aesthetics. As is the concept of aura. Aesthetics studies beauty and in the philosophical field, aesthetics has specialized in the analysis of the work of art.

Aura. The term was used by Walter Benjamin in his influential 1936 essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Benjamin argued that "even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art lacks an element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence in the place where it is located."

Both of the pictorial, sculptural and architectural work of art. As well as the literary work. Walter Benjamin establishes a fundamental concept. What is the concept of aura? It is a property owned by authentic works. Today we have a lot of contact with works of art but not with authentic works of art. In other words, what we have is contact with reproductions. Through photographs, through screens ...