Among princesses and prostitutes:: the allegories of the feminine in Modernity
Abstract: This essay propose to investigate the feminine dimension in Walter Benjamin's thought from the allegorical expression of language that is not only shown aesthetically, but is defined as epistemological and ethical category. In this sense, first of all, we will go through the birth of...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP) |
| Repositorio: | Artefilosofia |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:pp.www.periodicos.ufop.br:article/4142 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufop.br/raf/article/view/4142 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Walter Benjamin deutschen Trauerspiel Modernity Allegory Feminin Barroco Alemão Modernidade Alegoria Feminino |
| Sumario: | Abstract: This essay propose to investigate the feminine dimension in Walter Benjamin's thought from the allegorical expression of language that is not only shown aesthetically, but is defined as epistemological and ethical category. In this sense, first of all, we will go through the birth of philosophy in the Greeks and its constitution based on male thought to confront Benjamin's epistemological criticism, which announces the truth as beautiful. In the criticism of representation, we already see the question of linguistic identification that differentiates the symbol and the allegory and places them alongside what we call a male and female tradition of thought. After that, we should explore the allegorical use in the representation of queens in the dramas of the German Baroque, presenting, in the moral and political ambiguities of their time, the creature and melancholic dimension of women in the German Baroque and the characterization of history as nature. Finally, we explored in the social transformations caused bythe expansion of the mode of production and circulation of goods in Parisian modernity the transfigurations of allegory by the heroines of Baudelaire. |
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