Walter Benjamin is a thinker who has long wanted to note at this blog, mainly because of their sensitivity to the victims of violence in human history, building on his speech (not deconstruction) memory and his voice is the voice of those who passed but are present ..
The German philosopher of Jewish origin, related to Bertolt Brecht, Theodor Adorno and the Frankfurt School, has left us his thought, which is not without semantic difficulties to address with clarity, precisely because its vagueness suggests different interpretations. In principle influenced by Jewish mysticism and later by historical materialism, he sought a synthesis that would project a development philosophy that would enable it to give a valid response to the challenges of their generation.
Their contributions are at the same time, wealth and current permanent. Perhaps because in them the role of the victim (forgotten and / or defeated) is central. It will also consider issues such as mass culture, socio-political function of the transmission of knowledge, language and translation, art and technology. Walter Benjamin
he lived in Germany in the early twentieth century, participating in the two world wars and marked by the arrival of Nazi fascism, his anguish and despair are reflected in all his works, but they also have a intended to give an answer, beyond the desperate diagnosis.
His suicide in 1940 at age 48, en Port Bou cerca de la frontera entre España y Francia, cuando intentaba escapar de la Francia ocupada por los nazis, cercenó la vida de uno de los filósofos más relevantes de su época.
Digno de destacar en su pensamiento es la “hermenéutica del peligro”, la que se puede apreciar en su obra “Tesis sobre filosofía de la historia”, de la que a continuación presento una reseña breve y un comentario sobre su persona y su obra que aparecen en el excelente blog de historia: El espejo de Clio
Walter Benjamin y las lecciones de una Historia vista a "Contrapelo"
No existe documento de cultura que no sea a la
time document of barbarism ... therefore, the historical materialist
be as far away as possible.
sees its mission is to go through the brush history against the grain (Walter Benjamin,
On the concept of history, thesis VII, c. 1940)
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Theses on the Philosophy of history . (1940)
is noteworthy that there has been, reportedly, an automaton constructed in such a way that was able to replicate to every move of a chess player with another counter move which assured win. A doll dressed in the Turkish, in the mouth a hookah pipe, sat at table spacious resting on a table. A mirror system aroused the illusion that this table was transparent from all sides. Actually sat in a little hunchback who was a teacher in the game of chess and guided by the hand of the puppet strings. We can imagine an equivalent of this device in philosophy. Continue reading
here.
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