continuity and correspondence:: two conflicting principles in Walter Benjamin's work

From his thesis on German Romanticism to the theses entitled "On the Concept of History," Walter Benjamin questions the idea of continuity, based on linear temporality and deductive logic. This questioning goes through radical postulates such as the total break with tradition and the "...

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Autor: Otte, Georg
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP)
Repositorio:Artefilosofia
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:pp.www.periodicos.ufop.br:article/1973
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.ufop.br/raf/article/view/1973
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Walter Benjamin
Continuity
Correspondence.
Continuidade
Correspondência
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Resumo:From his thesis on German Romanticism to the theses entitled "On the Concept of History," Walter Benjamin questions the idea of continuity, based on linear temporality and deductive logic. This questioning goes through radical postulates such as the total break with tradition and the "continuum explosion", and the destruction of unidirectional linearity is compensated by the construction of more complex models such as images and monads, both privileged by Benjamin for following the principle of correspondence.