The idea of history

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  • Crescenciano Grave Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33064/10crscsh373

Keywords:

concept of history, progress, redemption, Walter Benjamin

Abstract

The article explains how Walter Benjamin presents, as clearly as did Paul Klee in his Angelus Novus, human history as it vacillates between the different concepts. It analyses the polarity of the concept of history as an environment where redemption is possible. It sustains that Benjamin envisions the idea of history as a way to fracture the myth of progress and the concept of linear temporality. Supported by the thoughts of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, this member of the Frankfurt School proposes the idea of time as an experience that allows the past to go beyond itself, conserved in actions and in works that suspend time, therefore permitting the perception of the throbbing desire for redemption.

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Published

2001-07-01

How to Cite

Grave, C. (2001). The idea of history. Caleidoscopio - Biannual Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 5(10), 17–151. https://doi.org/10.33064/10crscsh373

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