A master of critique: romanticism, myth, and enlightenment in Walter Benjamin / Um mestre da crítica: romantismo, mito e Iluminismo em Walter Benjamin

AUTOR(ES)

Everaldo Vanderlei de Oliveira

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The present paper aims to investigate the concepts of critique and experience in the work of Walter Benjamin written in the years around 1920, which was derived from On the program of the coming philosophy written in 1918 and thus to highlight their intertwined relationship with the concepts of myth and Enlightenment. To do so, this paper focuses on Benjamins doctorate thesis, The concept of art criticism in German romanticism, as well as on his critical essay on Goethes Elective Affinities. Regarding the first one, we show that the concept of immanent critique joins the perspectives of romantic philosophy and poetics, which is particularly due to the hidden presence of messianism in the concept of reflection. In the second one, we focus on the problem of critique and experience in a new formulation, whose developments show the relations between myth and Enlightenment, which also includes a critique of the eternal return, the mythical concept of time.

ASSUNTO(S)

walter benjamin romantismo de iena enlightenment experiência goethe afinidades eletivas walter benjamin iluminismo crítica myth goethe early german romanticism elective affinities experience critique mito

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