The truths in Foucault and Benjamin: a contribution to the field of social memory

• Autor(a) principal: Salztrager, Ricardo
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Lourenço, Felipe Teixeira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: INTERthesis
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/interthesis/article/view/1807-1384.2017v14n1p41

The proposal of this article is to analyze how the concept of truth is conceptualized in Foucault and Benjamin, highlighting the criticism that both make reference to the Platonics. We highlight that in their theories, the concept of truth stops to associate of the idea of essence, passing to acquire a historical and contingently character. Moreover, we see that the truth is designed as a production and never as something that is hidden from the beginning and must be appropriately discovered. In Foucault, we focus in several articulations that the concept of truth has with the domains of power and knowledge. In Benjamin, we emphasize how much the author appreciates the multiple meanings that an event may suffer from time to time. Therefore, we examined how far Benjamin is from the absolute truth idea, opting to value the various constellations of truths and knowledge built to be always reinterpreted and never crystallized. Finally, we analyze how our study can contribute to social memory research fields because it can be characterized as a transdisciplinary field that sees its object of study as something procedural.