Name: Tesis sobre la historia y otros fragmentos (in Spanish)
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Author: Walter Benjamin
ISBN: 9789588454054

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Tesis sobre la historia y otros fragmentos (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Walter Benjamin

Publisher

Ediciones Desde Abajo

Topic

Ciencias Sociales

Collection

Clásicos de la Historia Crítica

Year

2010

Language

Spanish

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17x24

ISBN

9588454050

ISBN13

9789588454054

Edited in

Colombia

Tesis sobre la historia y otros fragmentos (in Spanish)

Walter Benjamin (Author) · Ediciones Desde Abajo · Paperback

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Synopsis "Tesis sobre la historia y otros fragmentos (in Spanish)"

El núcleo reflexivo o el punto teórico central en torno al que giran los muy variados temas que Benjamin aborda en sus Tesis sobre la Historia está dado por el intento de mostrar que una teoría de la revolución adecuada a la crisis de la modernidad capitalista sólo puede cumplir su tarea de reflexión si es capaz de construirse al combinar el utopismo con el mesianismo haciendo que ambos se exijan mutuamente a dar más de sí mismos".

Walter Benjamin

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Walter Benjamin was a prominent philosopher, literary critic, and art and history theorist born in Berlin, Germany. His work and critical thinking have had a profound influence on 20th century cultural studies.
Benjamin was born into a wealthy Jewish family and grew up in an intellectually stimulating environment. From an early age, he showed an interest in literature, music, and art.
In the 1920s, after serving in the German army during World War I, he joined the Frankfurt School, a circle of German intellectuals and social critics interested in transforming Marxist ideas. There, he met other thinkers like Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer who were major influences on his work and worldview.
Throughout his life, Benjamin was also deeply interested in politics and social issues. During the years of the Weimar Republic, he actively participated in the cultural and literary field. However, the rise of Nazism to power in 1933 forced him to leave Germany. He first went into exile in Paris and after the French occupation, Benjamin tried to escape to Spain to embark towards the United States, but was detained at the French-Spanish border. Faced with the imminent threat of being handed over to the German authorities, the author decided to end his life.

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