Political engagement on the benjaminian theoretical conceptual plane

Abstract

The article intends to rescue some of the principles that constitute that exercise of literary criticism by Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) who, due to his eminently philosophical and rhetorical character, developed his hermeneutic and reflective assumptions based on the intimate connection between aesthetic forms and the analytical discourse. From this, his was not only able to explore different modes of presentation for his literary criticism writings but, consequently, he combined a strong political engagement, arranged in a configuration that is often sibylline, in which the fortune of images and allegories should lead us to argumentative scenarios of complete immersion in the very aesthetic objects to which he dedicates himself. In this sense, among the immensity of inputs and outputs that his thought allows us to make, we will dedicate ourselves especially to questions of history, the political reading of narratives and, especially, the intermediation that poetic language configures in this context.