Four Non-hermeneutical Theses on Walter Benjamin

https://doi.org/10.1590/2179-8966/2025/85188 The unpublished manuscript Four Non-hermeneutical Theses on Walter Benjamin is part of the Giorgio Agamben Collection at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Originally written in French by Agamben in 1988, this text finds here its...

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Autores: Agamben , Giorgio, de Sá Souza, Joyce Karine
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
Repositorio:Revista Direito e Práxis
Idioma:portugués
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Acceso en línea:https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/revistaceaju/article/view/85188
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Palabra clave:Hermeneutics
History
Language
Walter Benjamin
Hermenêutica
História
Linguagem
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Sumario:https://doi.org/10.1590/2179-8966/2025/85188 The unpublished manuscript Four Non-hermeneutical Theses on Walter Benjamin is part of the Giorgio Agamben Collection at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Originally written in French by Agamben in 1988, this text finds here its first translation into Portuguese. In it, the Italian philosopher articulates the concepts of language, time, history and theology to reveal the non-hermeneutical relationship between history and language in Benjamin’s thought. Agamben argues that the relationship between history and human language is a fundamental condition for understanding Benjamin’s thought which, by brushing history against the grain, moves away from trends in contemporary hermeneutics enclosed in the process of transmitting tradition. According to Agamben, the problem, for Benjamin, “is rather about interrupting this tradition, about operating its crisis, its final judgment”.