Lexicon of Arguments

 

Bolz II 14
Dialectic/Benjamin: Benjamin does not produce a synthesis. He lets the opposites collide to create space for the concept of a salvation that cannot be understood as the result of human planning and manipulation.
>Synthesis.
Bolz II 31f
Dialectic/Benjamin: Benjamin probably thinks dialectically, but not in a Hegelian way.
>Dialectic, >Dialectic/Hegel.
Bolz II 56
Dialectic of Power/Benjamin: the ruler knows that he himself will end up victim of his atrocities. The tyrant is simultaneously a mrtyr. The courtly nobleman is not only perfected in his manners, but at the same time the perfect intriguer.
>Power, >Master/Slave, >Tyranny.
Bolz II 69
"Dialectic at a standstill" means not reaching the goal. The movement continues, but on the spot. Eternal passage. "Nu": "The thing that has been gets flashingly connected to the "Now" into a constellation."
>Process, >Motion, >Present, >Past, >Future, >Time.

1. W. Benjamin, Gesammelte Schriften. Unter Mitwirkung von Th. W. Adorno und Gershom Sholem herausgegeben von Rolf Tiedemann und Hermann Schweppenhäuser Frankfurt/M. 1972-89. Bd I, S 256f.