Abstract:Abstract:The concept of Witz, as it appears in fragments by Friedrich Schlegel, published between 1798 and 1800, is connected to the aesthetic understanding and was revisited by Walter Benjamin in The Concept of Art Criticism in German Romanticism. Witz is part of the romantic "philosophical terminology", a moment in a critical reflection on a work of art in which sudden knowledge is given. In the work of art, Witz operates an illumination of different levels: semantically, it appears as a figure of style of s… Show more
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