Nature and history in Walter Benjamin

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https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X74940

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Walter Benjamin, History, Nature

Abstract

Whereas the question of history is one of the most discussed issues in the work of Walter Benjamin, that of the nature occupies a secondary place in the benjaminian critique. However, this essay aims to show that with the reduction of the role of the subject in modernity, there is an increasing importance of a nature which escapes to his control. Rejecting a progressive conciet of history, the historical events seem to obey much more, for Benjamin, to processes known from the natural sciences than to the political projections of a modern society.

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Author Biography

Georg Otte, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG

Professor Associado da Faculdade de Letras da UFMG. Bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa do CNPq – Nível 2.

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Published

2023-07-06

How to Cite

Otte, G. (2023). Nature and history in Walter Benjamin. Literatura E Autoritarismo, (5). https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X74940