The paper "Intoxicated" with Silence – Walter Benjamin's Experience of Passive Silence consists of three parts. The first (introductory) section highlights the notion of silence in the contextof selected works by Walter Benjamin. The second (main) section attempts to analyze the motif of so-called [passive] silence as auratic experience in Benjamin's texts, as well as their impact on certain films and literary works. The third part first discusses the relation between the contextof Benjamin's

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... lence and two public practices referred to as the performances of silence, and then provides a summary of the issues considered in this paper.