Abstract

VARGAS, Mariela. El problema del tiempo histórico y la imagen dialéctica en Walter Benjamin. Rev. latinoam. filos. [online]. 2012, vol.38, n.1, pp.85-108. ISSN 1852-7353.

This Essay sketches out some moments in Benjamin's reflexions about time and history and offers a genealogy of Benjamin's early interest on the problem of philosophy of history. In contrast to current interpretations of messianism as a monolitic category closely related to jewish theology, I will show that an important turning point in the horizont of changes that this concept experiences along his work opens the possibility to a heterodox reading of this concept. On the other side, taking account of the new kind of relationship with the past that the notion of "dialectical image" enables, I will examinate the importance of Benjamin´s encounter with Proust in the process of giving shape to that notion.

Keywords : Messianism; Dialectical image; Jetztzeit; Proust; Memory.

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