Walter Benjamin emphasizes the aestheticization of politics as a logical consequence of the process of art’s degradation. This degradation occurs as the result of the transformation of an artwork due to the technological development of society. The tendency of aestheticization of politics had reached its apogee in the Nazi state since its leaders understood the role of cultural medium as an effective toolkit of propaganda and transformed art into the means of creation and communication of ideology-driven cultural codes. Benjamin’s po...
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