Rethinking Nostalgia

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Abstract

This article reappraises commodification theory in light of literary-aesthetic categories, specifically, allegory vs symbol, as analyzed in Walter Benjamin’s criticism on German drama. As a larger framework of a modernity critique, the symbolic theory of Georg Lukács is read against the allegorical, critical impulse of Walter Benjamin.