Benjamin 's Critical Theory Of Modernity

The origin of Walter Benjamin’s critiques on modernity began in an early stage with deep connotations and diversified levels. He used unique methodology including constellations and fragments, pauses and moments to refuse the metaphysics. He criticized the illusion of the modernity from the multi-dimensions such as aesthetics, history and politics. He made profound explanations on whether progress or retreat, fashion or desolateness, savagery and civilization. In such a “progressive” modernized society, Benjamin did not “worship” and strived to explore the modernized real iamge and held unique insight on the temporal capitalist society.Benjamin had uniqueness and profoundity on the modernized critique theories, which offered deep reflection on the crisis and its solution to the modernity for human existence, which offered important theoretical resources for the inheritance and development of the historical materialism and further understanding the Marxism and modernization construction.