Historia y ruina en la obra de Walter Benjamin. De El origen del Trauers-piel alemán a las «Tesis de filosofía de la historia»

  1. Martínez Matías, Paloma 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

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Revista:
Ingenium: Revista electrónica de pensamiento moderno y metodología en historia de las ideas

ISSN: 1989-3663

Any de publicació: 2021

Número: 15

Pàgines: 23-33

Tipus: Article

DOI: 10.5209/INGE.77381 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Resum

This essay aims to point out the presence in Walter Benjamin’s habilitation treatise Origin of German Trauerspiel of some of the most relevant ideas which he plants in his “Theses on the philosophy of history”. To do so, we shall firstly explore Benjamin’s last work focusing on his defense of the need for the materialist historiographer to consider history from the perspective of his own present, on the vision of history as a ruinous catastrophe, an idea which Benjamin sets against historicism, and on the revolutionary potential highlighted in this understanding of the historical process. Following which, we undertake an analysis of those aspects of Benjamin’s habilitation treatise which can be illuminated by “Theses on the philosophy of history”. These include the significance gained by the notions of constellation and monad, which points to an interpretation of the Baroque shaped throughout Benjamin’s era, and the perception of history attributed to this period, which is also marked by its ruinous and catastrophic character, as revealed in his examination of Trauerspiel and the way it employs allegory.

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