La figura del cavilador [Grübler] y lo no-humano en Walter Benjamin. Una aproximación materialista a la actividad del pensamiento
In this paper, we examine Benjamin’s use of the figure of the brooder [Grübler] to characterize Baudelaire in "Central Park" and in the convolute J dedicated to the poet in the Arcades Project. While previous studies of the brooder in the German-Jewish philosopher's work have focused...
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Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias de Filosofía en la Escuela (CIIFE)
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/saberesypracticas/article/view/6791 |
| Sumario: | In this paper, we examine Benjamin’s use of the figure of the brooder [Grübler] to characterize Baudelaire in "Central Park" and in the convolute J dedicated to the poet in the Arcades Project. While previous studies of the brooder in the German-Jewish philosopher's work have focused on melancholic knowledge and allegory in the Origin of German Tragic Drama, we seek to demonstrate the shifts that occur in Benjamin's approach to brooding in his analysis of Baudelaire. We argue that the activity of brooding should be understood not only in relation to allegory but also to flânerie. Our paper proposes a materialist conception of thought that unfolds around brooding, in which non-human motives are embodied and in which takes place an articulation between theory and practice, or between thought and action, through the complementarity between the attitude of the allegorist and the flâneur. Therefore, with the figure of the brooder, Benjamin not only disputes the philosophical traditiondominant of thought as a contemplative human activity, but also its critical-political potential to account for the concrete phenomena of his time in a horizon that orates the limits of the human. |
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