The mystical structure of Walter Benjamin’s philosophical criticism of the concept of progress

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  • Facundo Bey Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad del Salvador, Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad de Buenos Aires https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9449-0463

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46468/rsaap.13.2.N2

Keywords:

Progress, temporality, historical materialism, kabbalism, Walter Benjamin

Abstract

The general aim of this paper is to examine the role of Walter Benjamin’s criticism of the idea of progress within his philosophy, mantaining that the roots of his political thought may be found in the kabbalistic mysticism. The main intention is to determine, following Benjamin, some of the main characteristics of the belief in progress as a problem and its relationship to a given historical normativity. This would allow to elucidate what would be the relationship that, for Benjamin, a linear and processualist understanding of history may have with a political-intellectual attitude based on conformism and indifference.

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2019-11-01

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Vol. 13 No. 2 (2019): Vol. 13 Núm. 2 (2019): Revista SAAP - Volumen 13 Número 2

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