The woman metaphor: imagination and creation in Walter Benjamin
Starting from the interpretive direction indicated by Arendt, which emphasizes the role of metaphor in Walter Benjamin's thought, this article examines a metaphorical complex in particular: one that links a series of female images to the faculty to produce images. Such metaphorical configuratio...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2020 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP) |
| Repository: | Artefilosofia |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:pp.www.periodicos.ufop.br:article/4498 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufop.br/raf/article/view/4498 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | metaphor imagination creation images of women Walter Benjamin metáfora imaginação criação imagens das mulheres |
| Summary: | Starting from the interpretive direction indicated by Arendt, which emphasizes the role of metaphor in Walter Benjamin's thought, this article examines a metaphorical complex in particular: one that links a series of female images to the faculty to produce images. Such metaphorical configurations, which refer to neo-kantian sources of Benjamin's thought, stand out in Berlin's childhood around 1900, and in “After conclusion”, a short prose that presents artistic creation in an erotic metaphor. |
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