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Why was Walter Benjamin’s “work of art” essay mutilated?

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He mutilated Benjamin’s most well-known essay, and to today we learn the outcome: Theodor W. Adorno.Wolfgang Haut

Suspected by Adorno: Walter Benjamin’s groundbreaking essay “The work of art in the age of its technical reproducibility” initially appeared in a closely abridged model.

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