Historie og pukkelbevissthet: Om «den pukkelryggede mannslingen» i Walter Benjamins tenkning
Abstract Walter Benjamin uses the figure das bucklichte Männlein in four texts, three of which are central to his thinking on and about history, memory, remembrance and messianism. This article argues that this figure, the “hunchbacked dwarf”, is key to understanding Benjamin’s later thi...
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| Language: | Danish |
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Scandinavian University Press
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift |
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| Online Access: | https://www.idunn.no/nlvt/2019/01/historie_og_pukkelbevissthet_om_den_pukkelryggede_mannsli |
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| Summary: | Abstract
Walter Benjamin uses the figure das bucklichte Männlein in
four texts, three of which are central to his thinking on and about
history, memory, remembrance and messianism. This article argues
that this figure, the “hunchbacked dwarf”, is key to understanding
Benjamin’s later thinking, seeking to show how the figure is used
to visualize problems regarding history, remembrance and politics.
The hunchback is at once a destructive and a productive force. Its
presence opens for temporal disruption, which in Benjamin’s case
connotes directly to the understanding of time and of history. The
disruption/remembrance-dialectic is used to problematize the construction
of history, its political and theological impeachments, and the
possibilities of revolutionary and/or messianic redemption that
lie in the perception of history and the attentiveness of the writer
of history. Das bucklichte Männlein, I argue, may
be understood as a figure opening for a change in the perception
of history, and thus in the construction thereof. |
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| ISSN: | 0809-2044 1504-288X |