O barroco como problema estético e histórico: o contexto intelectual da origem do drama trágico alemão, de Walter Benjamin

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Michelle Lira Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/13256
• topic: Drama trágico; Tragédia; Origem; Meio intelectual alemão; Barroco; Tragic drama; Tragedy; Origin; German intellectual milieu; Baroque; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, authors and intellectuals from the philosophical, literary criticism and theory of history constituted an intellectual context in Germany. They were committed to thinking about issues involving the constitution of sciences, knowledge and aesthetics. It was in this environment that Walter Benjamin wrote one of his most complex works of youth, presented as the book Origin of German Tragic Drama. The book presents its hypotheses about the form of tragic drama present in the German Baroque theater, which is characterized by elements of modernity, constituting a historicity. For Benjamin, the concept of origin (Sprung) is a pre- and post-historical one, which in the Baroque period is linked to the constitution of the German nation, the Protestant Reformation, the 30 Years' War and the Napoleonic invasions. Therefore, considering the fractures caused by these events, the Baroque could not be thought of as a continuation of the Renaissance or of Greek tragedies for the consolidation of German culture in the way that intellectuals in Benjamin's context claimed. Therefore, we will seek in the study Origin of German Tragic Drama to understand how Benjamin used and analyzed the role of aesthetics to think about the theory of knowledge of history that dialogued with his contemporaries. We will thus discuss methodological and scientific issues from the debate on: Origin, method and knowledge, which will allow us to affirm that the tension between the aesthetic and the historical is constitutive of a modern time.