Melancholy as resistance to historicism; on the specific construction of history in Benjamin's Origins of the German Tragic Drama

Derroitte, Elise
(2010) 6th Annual Joint Conference of the Society for European Philosophy and the Forum for European Philosophy — Location: Rome Center of Loyola University (6.July.2010)

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Benjamin's writings have always been directed by the task of understanding the changes of modernity and the transformations of the subjective position it implies. Many of his most famous texts concern the loss of traditional experience, the concept of history and the decline of the aura. We want to show in this paper that all the aforementioned concerns have in common a certain construction of history that determines the place of the subjects. We think that all the crisis Benjamin identifies in modernity are first of all political crisis conditioned by the construction of the history those politics believe in. The analysis of the Tragic Drama does not contradict this thesis. We think indeed that we can understand Benjamin’s target in this text by showing the specific construction of history it involves.
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Derroitte, E. (2010). Melancholy as resistance to historicism; on the specific construction of history in Benjamin’s Origins of the German Tragic Drama. 6th Annual Joint Conference of the Society for European Philosophy and the Forum for European Philosophy, Rome Center of Loyola University. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/219106