I non luoghi della storia. María Zambrano, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin e l'utopia

2021 ◽  
pp. 153-168
Author(s):  
Elena Laurenzi
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
Maria Zambrano

scholarly journals How Fairy Tales Educate and Civilize Us: Ethical Literary Criticism on Fairy Tales

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Li Xiaoyi
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
Literary Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Bruno Bettelheim ◽  
Cultural Force

This article first discusses the history and ideology of fairy tales. As Walter Benjamin said in his essay “The Storyteller”, rumors and information were spread verbally, from person to person. So were fairy tales. Through storytelling, the history and experience is spread from generation to generation. So that audience, especially children, gather to listen to the folks and stories about things “long long ago”, sharing the memories and experience of the storytellers. Based on this idea, the article further analyses the utopian function of fairy tales, which depict the feasibility of utopian alternatives by means of fantastic images. Because in the name of fairy tales, anything is possible. Apart from hope and wish, there was dissatisfaction in fairy tales. Ernst Bloch placed special emphasis on dissatisfaction as a condition which ignites the utopian drive, so that it remains a powerful cultural force among the audience, urges them to resist, to change the unreasonable things in the world. At last, it comes to the ethical use of fairy tales with children. Many scholars, like Bruno Bettelheim and Julius E. Heuscher, have done some psychiatric and psychological research on the meaning and usefulness of fairy tales. Different from those, this article mainly talks about the literary education in fairy tales, how the words, characters and plots play a role in education.

scholarly journals Ernst Bloch as a Non-Simultaneous Jewish Marxist

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 346
Author(s):  
Przemyslaw Tacik
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
Franz Rosenzweig ◽  
Jewish Heritage ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Hermann Cohen

The paper attempts to reassess the fundamentally paradoxical position of Ernst Bloch in 20th century philosophy in the light of the Marranic condition. Indebted, among others, to Jewish heritage and Christian tradition, Bloch considered himself primarily a Marxist. Bloch’s uniqueness consists in the stunning equiponderance of the currents he drew from. Contrary to a classic model of modern Jewish philosophy, inaugurated by Hermann Cohen, Bloch’s thinking does not allow of easy juxtaposition of “sources” with languages into which they were translated. In this sense, Bloch cannot be easily compared to Franz Rosenzweig, Emmanuel Levinas or even Walter Benjamin (although he bore some striking similarities with the latter). His position at least partly stems from a specific form of directness with which he often used these languages, composing his philosophy in quite an anachronist manner. For this reason his thinking—in itself “die Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen”, as one of his key concepts theorises—is a very modern, internally incoherent space of cross-fertilising inspirations. The paper demonstrates two levels on which Bloch’s indebtedness to Judaism might be analysed and then re-assesses his Marxist affiliations as a kind of modern faith which, in a specifically Marranic manner, seals the simultaneity of the non-simultaneous.

Exile Boundary Crossing: Aesthetic Objects and Perception in the Works of Walter Benjamin and María Zambrano

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-415
Author(s):  
Karolina Enquist Källgren
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Bourgeois Society ◽  
Maria Zambrano ◽  
Late Works

In the late works of María Zambrano (1904–1991), the author presents exile as a particular kind of experience, by which the structure and arquitectonics of human existence become visible. Similarly, in his posthumously published Passagen-Werk Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) introduces the flanêur – which he repeatedly likens to the immigrant or exile – as the representation of a particular kind of gaze, disclosing the arquitectonics and structure of capitalist bourgeois society. In this article, I suggest that the notions of figura and dialektisches Bild from the authors’ respective works are connected to an exile mode of perception, centred on the problem of translatability across cultural and linguistic borders. I believe that the similarities between the two authors can be explained by a reading which contextualizes them as a political generation with a shared experience of exilic boundary-crossing.

Hashishdom

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Partridge
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Theophile Gautier ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
Alexandre Dumas ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

By the 1840s cannabis was beginning to be used in Western societies, particularly in France and America; as the century progressed, it enjoyed some popularity among physicians and psychiatrists. By the early twentieth century, philosophers such as Ernst Bloch and particularly Walter Benjamin were experimenting with the drug. This chapter is a discussion of the reception and use of hashish, primarily in the nineteenth century. As well as exploring its relationship with the Orient in the minds of users, it discusses its emergence as a technology of transcendence. Of particular significance in this respect was the work of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, particularly The Hasheesh Eater. However, other figures are discussed, including Jacques-Joseph Moreau de Tours, Alexandre Dumas, Théophile Gautier, and Charles Baudelaire.

Messianic Illusions: Taubes, Bloch, Benjamin and the Necessity of Interiority

2021 ◽  
pp. 205030322110152
Author(s):  
Benjamin Steele-Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Revolution

This article addresses rabbi and philosopher of religion Jacob Taubes’s claim that he had “presented the apocalypse of the revolution, although free from the illusions of messianic Marxists like Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin.” Detailing the shape of Taubes’s thought in relation to Bloch and Benjamin, it explores the manner in which Taubes embraces their respective messianisms while also charting an interiorized departure predicated upon a history of messianic crisis in Sabbateanism and early Christianity. Further, it frames this in terms of their respective historical contexts. Contrary to the Weimar-era messianism of Bloch and Benjamin inflected by an open futurity despite catastrophe, Taubes's messianism takes shape in response to a foreclosed future brought on by the events of the postwar era.

Capitalism as Religion: Walter Benjamin and Max Weber

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Löwy
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Protestant Ethic ◽  
Erich Fromm ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism ◽  
Libertarian Socialism

AbstractBenjamin's fragment 'Capitalism as Religion', written in 1921, was only published several decades after his death. Its aim is to show that capitalism is a cultic religion, without mercy or truce, leading humanity to the 'house of despair'. It is an astonishing document, directly based on Max Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but – in ways akin to Ernst Bloch or Erich Fromm – transforming Weber's 'value-free' analysis into a ferocious anticapitalist argument, probably inspired by Gustav Landauer's romantic and libertarian socialism. This article analyses Benjamin's fragment and explores its relationship to Weber's thesis, as well as to the tradition of romantic anticapitalism.

Walter Benjamin and the Remains of a Philosophy of History

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-233
Author(s):  
Cat Moir
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
Critical Potential ◽  
Historical Materialist ◽  
Changing Times

Uwe Steiner’s Walter Benjamin: An Introduction to His Work and Thought is a comprehensive and compelling account of Walter Benjamin’s life and work, which will satisfy both newcomers to Benjamin and those with an existing interest. In this review, I argue that Steiner’s account goes beyond similar encounters with Benjamin in two main ways: first, by focusing specifically on Benjamin’s personal and intellectual relationship with ‘modernity’ and, second, by presenting Benjamin’s enduring appeal as a result of the creative interpretation of his work according to changing times and tastes. Yet Steiner’s historicising account of Benjamin also somewhat neutralises his critical potential as a historical-materialist thinker. Drawing on the work of Benjamin’s erstwhile friend and contemporary Ernst Bloch, as well as on Peter Osborne’s concept of modernity as a specific consciousness of time, I argue that the act of interpretation itself requires a weakly teleological concept of history, such as we find with Bloch and, between the lines perhaps, also with Steiner’s Benjamin.

ERNST BLOCH E WALTER BENJAMIN: REFLEXÕES ACERCA DAS AFINIDADES ELETIVAS

Problemata ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-359
Author(s):  
Marta Maria Macial Aragão
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Ernst Bloch
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