Introduction. Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin: "The incapability of any actual pause"
Georg Simmel
Michelangelo: life and the fate of mankind
Rembrandt: re-producing the soulful life of the sitter as a portrait
Auguste Rodin: reexperiencing one's deepest life in the sphere of art
Walter Benjamin
Introduction. Walter Benjamin and Georg Simmel: "A duel that is the creative process itself"
Unscheinbarkeit: "Depersonalization set in an incomparably productive context"
Charlie Chaplin: "Man would not be the noblest on earth if he were not too noble for it"
Concluding remarks: "Always lagging half a step behind".