Messianism or History as Dissidence in the Work of Walter Benjamin

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Autor(a) principal: Cantinho, Maria João
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.48487/pdh.2017.n5.22587
Resumo: How can one think of History in a time in which Europe happened to be haunted by the specter of catastrophe, in our modern times? How can one escape the perils of Progress? This urgency determined the thought of Walter Benjamin since his youth, and decisively marked his conception of history itself, but also of his vision of language and of translation, of his own critique of art and reception. Starting from the concept of dialectic image as a new paradigm of comprehension of history, Benjamin tries to substitute an idea of a narrative of progress for discontinued and figurative idea of history, that regains in the pre- sent the possibility of reactivate the past and that values a qualitative dimension of temporality, instead of a quantitative temporality thathomogenized and disfigured his reading of history. Benjamin takes, essentially from the idea of Messianism, as a secularized category of Jewish tradition, to “build” what he designated as “brushing history against the grain”, focusing on himself that potentiality of rescuing the “messianic parcel” that become our fate and that brings in itself the echoes of voices that come to us.
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spelling Messianism or History as Dissidence in the Work of Walter BenjaminO messianismo ou a história como dissidência na obra de Walter BenjaminMessianismoHistóriaPolíticaImagem DialéticaMessianismHIstoryPoliticsDialetic ImageHow can one think of History in a time in which Europe happened to be haunted by the specter of catastrophe, in our modern times? How can one escape the perils of Progress? This urgency determined the thought of Walter Benjamin since his youth, and decisively marked his conception of history itself, but also of his vision of language and of translation, of his own critique of art and reception. Starting from the concept of dialectic image as a new paradigm of comprehension of history, Benjamin tries to substitute an idea of a narrative of progress for discontinued and figurative idea of history, that regains in the pre- sent the possibility of reactivate the past and that values a qualitative dimension of temporality, instead of a quantitative temporality thathomogenized and disfigured his reading of history. Benjamin takes, essentially from the idea of Messianism, as a secularized category of Jewish tradition, to “build” what he designated as “brushing history against the grain”, focusing on himself that potentiality of rescuing the “messianic parcel” that become our fate and that brings in itself the echoes of voices that come to us.Como pensar a história numa época em que a Europa se encontrava assombrada pelo espectro da catástrofe, na nossa modernidade? Como escapar aos perigos do Progresso? Foi esta urgência que determinou o pensamento de Walter Benjamin desde a sua juventude e que mar- cou decisivamente a sua concepção da história, mas também a sua visão da linguagem e da tradução, da própria crítica da arte e da sua recepção. Partindo do conceito de imagem dialética como um novo paradigma de compreensão e leitura da história, Benjamin procura substituir a ideia de uma história vista à luz das teorias do progresso por uma história descontínua e figurativa, que reencontra no presente a possibilidade de reactivação do passado e que valoriza uma dimensão da temporalidade qualitativa, em lugar da temporalidade quantitativa que homogeneizava e desfigurava a leitura da história. É sobretudo no conceito de messianismo, tomado como categoria secularizada da tradição judaica, que Walter Benjamin bebe, para “escovar a história a contrapelo”, concentrando em si essa potencialidade de resgatar a “parcela messiânica” que nos cabe em sorte e que traz em si o eco das vozes que nos chegam.Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa2021-01-26info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.48487/pdh.2017.n5.22587https://doi.org/10.48487/pdh.2017.n5.22587Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past; No. 5 (2017); 115-132Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past; N.º 5 (2017); 115-1322183-590Xreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPporhttps://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/22587https://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/22587/16661Copyright (c) 2021 Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Pastinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCantinho, Maria João2023-04-15T05:23:31Zoai:ojs.revistas.rcaap.pt:article/22587Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T17:49:21.627417Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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O messianismo ou a história como dissidência na obra de Walter Benjamin
title Messianism or History as Dissidence in the Work of Walter Benjamin
spellingShingle Messianism or History as Dissidence in the Work of Walter Benjamin
Cantinho, Maria João
Messianismo
História
Política
Imagem Dialética
Messianism
HIstory
Politics
Dialetic Image
title_short Messianism or History as Dissidence in the Work of Walter Benjamin
title_full Messianism or History as Dissidence in the Work of Walter Benjamin
title_fullStr Messianism or History as Dissidence in the Work of Walter Benjamin
title_full_unstemmed Messianism or History as Dissidence in the Work of Walter Benjamin
title_sort Messianism or History as Dissidence in the Work of Walter Benjamin
author Cantinho, Maria João
author_facet Cantinho, Maria João
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Cantinho, Maria João
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Messianismo
História
Política
Imagem Dialética
Messianism
HIstory
Politics
Dialetic Image
topic Messianismo
História
Política
Imagem Dialética
Messianism
HIstory
Politics
Dialetic Image
description How can one think of History in a time in which Europe happened to be haunted by the specter of catastrophe, in our modern times? How can one escape the perils of Progress? This urgency determined the thought of Walter Benjamin since his youth, and decisively marked his conception of history itself, but also of his vision of language and of translation, of his own critique of art and reception. Starting from the concept of dialectic image as a new paradigm of comprehension of history, Benjamin tries to substitute an idea of a narrative of progress for discontinued and figurative idea of history, that regains in the pre- sent the possibility of reactivate the past and that values a qualitative dimension of temporality, instead of a quantitative temporality thathomogenized and disfigured his reading of history. Benjamin takes, essentially from the idea of Messianism, as a secularized category of Jewish tradition, to “build” what he designated as “brushing history against the grain”, focusing on himself that potentiality of rescuing the “messianic parcel” that become our fate and that brings in itself the echoes of voices that come to us.
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