The intrication of political and rhetorical inquiry in Walter Benjamin

• Autores: David L Marshall
• Localización: History of political thought, ISSN 0143-781X, Vol. 34, Nº 4, 2013, págs. 702-737
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Scholars have largely ignored Walter Benjamin's assertion that his work was a continuation of initiatives begun by Giambattista Vico and Carl Gustav Jochmann. But Benjamin's assertion is important. It situates his work in a tradition of rhetorical inquiry. In turn, rhetorical inquiry ought to be understood as a form of political thought. This article traces the intrication and development of Benjamin's rhetorical and political interests from his early work on Trauerspiel through a sequence of texts written before and after the fall of the Weimar Republic in 1933, up to and including the various redactions of the 'Kunstwerk' essay.