Denkbilder. Zu den Beziehungen zwischen Kunst und Theorie bei Benjamin und Kant.

The article discusses the relationship between art and theory according to the German philosophers Immanuel Kant and Walter Benjamin. Art and theoretical thinking both use abstract symbols. Kant connected the symbolic construction of discourse and the symbolic dimension of words. For Benjamin, the connection of concept and image is even closer, as expressed in theoretical and poetic writing. Benjamin's language hides concepts in pictures, and his metaphors have a philosophical dimension.