Walter Benjamin's stocking

A conference in Dahlem on the education of feelings through the ages

Sensual experiences encourage children's own awareness. Etching by Daniel Chodowiecki in: J.B. Basedow "Elementarwerk", ed. by Theodor Fritzsch. Leipzig 1909

A rolled up pair of stockings: For the philosopher, translator and literary critic Walter Benjamin it was this very thing hidden in his parents' dresser that made for his education of feelings.
To find out more about the conference's multifaceted discussion of education and feelings from the 17th century on, please see the German version

Professor Ute Frevert, director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, illuminates the development of feelings through the ages with Chodowiecki's etchings. Photo: Nina Diezemann

The anthropologist Professor Christoph Wulf from the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion" coorganized the conference for the Freie Universität Berlin. Photo: Nina Diezemann

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