E. Albanese, Al di qua della soglia. Sulla Politica di Walter Benjamin, in «Filosofia e Teologia», ESI, n. 3/2020, pp. 535-548., 2021
For a long time, little attention has been paid to the project of Politics, on which
Benjamin wo... more For a long time, little attention has been paid to the project of Politics, on which
Benjamin worked in the early Twenties. In addition to the unfinished and fragmentary state in which the latter has reached us today, this trend would have been
aggravated by the spread of an obsolete reading that identifies the project as a youth
work steeped in anarchism and spiritualism, negligible after all,compared to the
production following the Marxist and Leninist «turning point» of ‘24 and the consequent abjuration of the anarchist and idealist orientation. Against the paradigm
of «rupture», it emerges a certain coherence of Benjamin’s reflection on True Politician, whose distinctive traits are an undeniable anarchist matrix, a peculiar messianic
nihilism and an increasingly marked materialist approach: a thought, whose origin
coincides precisely with Politik, a point of convergence of his philosophical, political,
theological and aesthetic interests.
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Benjamin worked in the early Twenties. In addition to the unfinished and fragmentary state in which the latter has reached us today, this trend would have been
aggravated by the spread of an obsolete reading that identifies the project as a youth
work steeped in anarchism and spiritualism, negligible after all,compared to the
production following the Marxist and Leninist «turning point» of ‘24 and the consequent abjuration of the anarchist and idealist orientation. Against the paradigm
of «rupture», it emerges a certain coherence of Benjamin’s reflection on True Politician, whose distinctive traits are an undeniable anarchist matrix, a peculiar messianic
nihilism and an increasingly marked materialist approach: a thought, whose origin
coincides precisely with Politik, a point of convergence of his philosophical, political,
theological and aesthetic interests.
Benjamin worked in the early Twenties. In addition to the unfinished and fragmentary state in which the latter has reached us today, this trend would have been
aggravated by the spread of an obsolete reading that identifies the project as a youth
work steeped in anarchism and spiritualism, negligible after all,compared to the
production following the Marxist and Leninist «turning point» of ‘24 and the consequent abjuration of the anarchist and idealist orientation. Against the paradigm
of «rupture», it emerges a certain coherence of Benjamin’s reflection on True Politician, whose distinctive traits are an undeniable anarchist matrix, a peculiar messianic
nihilism and an increasingly marked materialist approach: a thought, whose origin
coincides precisely with Politik, a point of convergence of his philosophical, political,
theological and aesthetic interests.