Walter Benjamin y la génesis de Passagen-Werk. Un encantamiento dialéctico

IBARLUCÍA, RICARDO

REVISTA LATINOAMERICANA DE FILOSOFíA

Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 1997 vol. 23 p. 319 - 343

0325-0725

In 1928 Walter Benjamin declared his ambition to "take up the legacy of surrealism". He pictured himself exercising "al the powers of command of a philosophical Fortinbras" in order to movilize the legitimate energies of surrealist's aesthetics for his own critical work. By historizing and contextualizing "Dreamkitsch", Benjamin's first essay on Breton, Aragon and Eluard, this study explores his tentative to reconstruct the surrealist vision of a modern mythology, incorporating it into his own theory or "historical illumination". The result is a interpretative framework wich attemps to make sense of what appear, on first sight, to be contradictory and paradoxical impulses within Benjain's early characterization of the Arcades Project as a dialectical fairy scense.