Abstract

LIPCEN, Erika. Crisis of transmission and montage of quotations in Walter Benjamin. Rev. Pilquen. secc. cienc. soc. [online]. 2018, vol.21, n.4, pp.1-9. ISSN 1851-3123.

In Experience and Poverty and The Storyteller, Walter Benjamin develops an analysis about the crisis of transmission. According to the author, we witness a devaluation of the faculty of communicating experience from one generation to another. The problem that this diagnosis arises is how to reconnect past and present. We found that in neither of the two texts mentioned above does Benjamin formulate this problem, nor does he elaborate an answer to it. In the present article, after reconstructing his analysis about the crisis of transmission, we have looked, in other of his writings, for some elements that could help to face this crisis. Our hypothesis is that the figure of the montage of quotations is a resource that allows the transmission of experience and connects past and present.

Keywords : Transmission; Experience; Montage; Quotations; Walter Benjamin.

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