K filosofii zbitého myšlení. Dialektika citovatelného gesta podle Waltera Benjamina
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In the 1930s, the playwright Bertolt Brecht had a marked impact on Walter Benjamin‘s life and thinking. Brecht‘s epic theatre inspired Benjamin to write several texts in which the philosopher explores the concept of the “quotable gesture”. This article aims to offer an interpretation of the quotable gesture as a methodological tool for the critique of the modern alienation of tradition and the crisis of thinking. Drawing on selected essays, I analyse the principle of gestural citation as a critical-hermeneutical principle in which common pre-understanding is to be suspended in favour of particular attention towards the phenomenal and to one‘s own thinking.
Source: REFLEXE
Author: Josefína Formanová
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4403404460