Une "parcelle du pouvoir messianique". De la philosophie romantique dans les thèses "Sur le concept d'histoire" de Walter Benjamin
(2018) Phantasia — Vol. 2018, n° 7, p. 30-44 (2018)
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- (en) This article argues for a much more profound interconnection between philosophical romanticism and Walter Benjamin's theses On The Concept of History than has been acknowledged up to now. It particularly reveals a number of parallels between Benjamin's historical approach and the philosophy of history of the two principal thinkers of Early German Romanticism, Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis, who had already formed the object of Benjamin's doctoral thesis. It examines Benjamin's final philosophical work in the light of three central topics inherited from Early German Romanticism, which have been less explored in romanticism studies and Benjamin scholarship, yet are decisive for helping clarify what is at stake in Benjamin's text: the relation to prophecy; the question of messianism; and the heliotropism of the past.
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Cahen-Maurel, L. (2018). Une “parcelle du pouvoir messianique”. De la philosophie romantique dans les thèses “Sur le concept d’histoire” de Walter Benjamin. Phantasia, 2018(7), 30-44. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/172012 (Original work published 2018)