Benjamin

Thinking about the Present and Dreaming about the Past: The Politics and History in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project

Alex Betancourt Serrano abs@uprrp.edu Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Abstract: This article explores Walter Benjamin’s political and historical proposals that emerge from his Arcades Project. The essay outlines Benjamin’s criticism of historicism and presents his proposal of historical interpretation as a dream taking into account the dialectic relationship between the past and the political […]

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Waking from sleep: Walter Benjamin and the shock issue

Guido Vespucci, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina

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