"Todas las cosas pasadas". Consideraciones sobre la idea de historia natural en Walter Benjamin
ISSN: 2172-9506
Year of publication: 2010
Issue Title: Walter Benjamin (1940-2010)
Volume: 2
Pages: 219-231
Type: Article
More publications in: Constelaciones: Revista de Teoría Crítica
Abstract
The question about the interaction between Art History and Aesthetics, which in this paper is considered from an important letter that Walter Benjamin sent to Florens Christian Rang, has been very important for aesthetic research. In that letter, Benjamin sustains that his main worry is «the relationship between art and historical life». The aim of this paper is to take this thesis as a reference point for analyzing the main hermeneutic and historicalphilosophical implications in the question of historicity, by developing his theory of natural history.