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Texts: A text is a written or printed piece of language-based communication, ranging from individual words to longer passages or documents, conveying information, ideas, or stories. See also Language, Writing, Information, Communication, Meaning, Words, Word meaning, Sentence meanging, Literature, Culture, Cultural transmission.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Walter Benjamin on Texts - Dictionary of Arguments

Bolz II 23
Text/Benjamin: the text is not important in terms of a historical point of view in relation to its author.
Text: Two Spheres: "Scripture" "Inscription"(1)
1. Sphere: work/authority
2. Sphere: unsettles the authority: The relation to the subject is meaningless, like any inscription.
>Writing
, >Inscriptions, >Authorship.
Bolz II 24
The work itself gets a chance to speak.(2)
Work Character > Model character.
Bolz II 26
Text/Benjamin: New forms:
Flyers, brochures, magazine articles, posters: Only this prompt language is adequately effective in the moment.(3)
1. Necessity of new art forms
2. Integration of proletarian life and language forms
3. The journalistic monopoly of the newspaper.
These moments have to be recalled together in such a way that the decomposition of the traditional forms by the mass media is recognizable precisely as the prerequisite of new forms. "Theological" dialectics in the relationship of "deepest humiliation" and "restoration".(4)
>Theology/Benjamin.


1. W. Benjamin, Briefe. Herausgegeben und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Gershom Sholem und Th. W. Adorno, Frankfurt/M. 1966/1978, Br. 220.
2. W. Benjamin, Gesammelte Schriften. Unter Mitwirkung von Th. W. Adorno und Gershom Sholem herausgegeben von Rolf Tiedemann und Hermann Schweppenhäuser Frankfurt/M. 1972-89. Bd II, S. 688.
3. W. Benjamin, Gesammelte Schriften. Unter Mitwirkung von Th. W. Adorno und Gershom Sholem herausgegeben von Rolf Tiedemann und Hermann Schweppenhäuser Frankfurt/M. 1972-89. Bd IV S. 85
4. Ebenda.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Bo I
N. Bolz
Kurze Geschichte des Scheins München 1991

Bolz II
Norbert Bolz
Willem van Reijen
Walter Benjamin Frankfurt/M. 1991


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