![]() ![]() It was mainly a reaction to the very forceful, brutal and rapid process of industrialization of the country during this time, which threatened to dissolve all ancient values and beliefs and replace them with the cold and rational calculations of commodity production. Neo-romanticism, as a moral and social critique of ‘progress’ and of modern Zivilisation-in the name of a nostalgic loyalty to the traditional Kultur-became the dominant trend among the German intelligentsia from the end of the nineteenth century to the rise of fascism. ![]() W alter Benjamin’s style of thinking is unique and resists classification, but it can be better understood and explained if related to the cultural atmosphere of Mittel-Europa at the beginning of the century, and to certain religiouspolitical undercurrents among German-speaking Jewish intellectuals of this period. ![]()
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