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| History: History is the study of the past, especially the people, events, and trends that have shaped our world. This is about the part of the past that was determined and experienced by consciousness. See also Historiography, Culture._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Walter Benjamin on History - Dictionary of Arguments
Bolz II 15 History/Benjamin: History is interwoven with aesthetics in Benjamin. >Aesthetics. History: There is no salvation in history, but salvation from history! Bolz II 34 History/Benjamin: history is antithetical to the "messianic intensity of the heart", but in such a way that "a force on its way is able to convey another force in the opposite direction." Conception of a secular "restitutio in integrum" which impresses on all natural aspects the features of eternal destruction. To this "total confinement" of Benjamin's work of nature on "world politics, whose method is called nihilism."(1) Bolz II 38 History/Benjamin: The past is unfinished in the eyes of the political theological view. As if the contemplative itself is the subject of the past. Awakening from the capitalist dream. The political and theological categories have left the flow of history frozen. In its interior, a crystalline constellation is formed. Ever-present in history is the scandal. There is no liberation for the humiliated and the insulted, but only salvation. Bolz II 76 History/Benjamin: "The dream we call the past things".(2) We must awaken from it. Modernity: modernity is nothing more than the history-blind form of dream of the time. >Modernism. Bolz II 77 BenjaminVsHistoricism: historicism has no concept of actuality. It tells the past and, at the same time, blocks the possibility of visualizing it as a past thing. No critical relationship to the present. Siegfried Giedion: "historicizing mask": characterization of interiors, exhibitions and museums of the 19th century. >Historicism, >Historiography, >Present, >Past. Question: "What is related to us"? Thus Benjamin seeks to establish a tactile relationship with the nineteenth century. Answer: "materialistic reflection on the next". Bolz II 79 History/Alois Riegl/Bolz: What could be called "borderline case history" should become the notion of necessity not in the course of history, but at the extreme. 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 II, S. 204 2. Ebenda, Bd V, S. 491ff_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Bo I N. Bolz Kurze Geschichte des Scheins München 1991 Bolz II Norbert Bolz Willem van Reijen Walter Benjamin Frankfurt/M. 1991 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-18