The text offers a reappraisal of Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History (Über den Begriff der Geschichte; ‘On the Concept of History’) from the perspective of global politics today and its similarities with the socio-economic and political situation in Europe and the Americas during the 1920s and 30s; more specifically, the impact of crises on the erosion of trust in liberal representative democracy and the concomitant rise of mostly rightwing populist movements and their strongmen leaders, aided to a significant degree by the media, ‘old’ and ‘new’ alike. The purpose of the text is to draw lessons from Benjamin’s vision of materialist historiography for our current political predicament.
Predmet teksta jeste preispitivanje teza O shvatanju istorije (Über den Begriff der Geschichte) Valtera Benjamina iz ugla globalne politike danas i sličnosti sa društveno-ekonomskim i političkim stanjem u Evropi i Americi 20-ih i 30-ih godina 20. veka; preciznije, u članku se raspravlja o uplivu kriza i gubitka poverenja u liberalnu predstavničku demokratiju, kao i pratećeg uspona uglavnom desničarskih populističkih političkih pokreta i njihovih autoritarnih vođa, uz znatnu pomoć medija, i „starih“ i „novih“. Cilj teksta je da ponudi određene pouke iz Benjaminove vizije materijalističke istoriografije radi uspešnijeg nošenja s našim trenutnim političkim (ne)prilikama.
Keywords:
Walter Benjamin / history / historical materialism / historicism / progress / Karl Marx / allegory / narrativity / continuum of history
Source:
Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society, 2019, 30, 3, 384-398
Publisher:
Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
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AB - The text offers a reappraisal of Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History (Über den Begriff der Geschichte; ‘On the Concept of History’) from the perspective of global politics today and its similarities with the socio-economic and political situation in Europe and the Americas during the 1920s and 30s; more specifically, the impact of crises on the erosion of trust in liberal representative democracy and the concomitant rise of mostly rightwing populist movements and their strongmen leaders, aided to a significant degree by the media, ‘old’ and ‘new’ alike. The purpose of the text is to draw lessons from Benjamin’s vision of materialist historiography for our current political predicament.
AB - Predmet teksta jeste preispitivanje teza O shvatanju istorije (Über den Begriff der Geschichte) Valtera Benjamina iz ugla globalne politike danas i sličnosti sa društveno-ekonomskim i političkim stanjem u Evropi i Americi 20-ih i 30-ih godina 20. veka; preciznije, u članku se raspravlja o uplivu kriza i gubitka poverenja u liberalnu predstavničku demokratiju, kao i pratećeg uspona uglavnom desničarskih populističkih političkih pokreta i njihovih autoritarnih vođa, uz znatnu pomoć medija, i „starih“ i „novih“. Cilj teksta je da ponudi određene pouke iz Benjaminove vizije materijalističke istoriografije radi uspešnijeg nošenja s našim trenutnim političkim (ne)prilikama.
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Cvejić, Ž.. (2019). Blasting the Past: A Rereading of Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History. in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society
Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju., 30(3), 384-398.
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1903384C
Cvejić Ž. Blasting the Past: A Rereading of Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History. in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society. 2019;30(3):384-398.
doi:10.2298/FID1903384C .
Cvejić, Žarko, "Blasting the Past: A Rereading of Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History" in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society, 30, no. 3 (2019):384-398,
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1903384C . .
