Historical Criticism as a Transformative Power in Walter Benjamin’s Thought
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Critique of history, The concept of Allegorical world, Redemptive power, TechnologyAbstract
The essential point of Walter Benjamin’s philosophy; although he was not a competent about the philosophy of history especially, is a radical concept of history and an attempt of critique about the common concept of history. His critique that is consist of trying to understand and change the modern epoch which he found himself was realized by an allegorical world of view and a messianic concept of language that seems original or authentic considerably. The critique of history that going towards the effect of the main points of the modern world, like technology and progress that make the epoch a kind of hell by homogenizing it, tries to awake a revolutianary moment in the course of history. In this context, the result of his thought is about the potentiality, that is re-interpretative and re-redemptive power of which, that expect to be activated. In this paper, it will try to explicate with the main lines Benjamin’s concept of critique in the context of his concept of language and allegorical world.
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