Benjamin’s Ecologue: Language and Environmental Trauma in the Anthropocene
DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2022.e84224Résumé
Walter Benjamin’s theory of language has ecocritical implications. His panlogue, the idea that everything speaks, includes an ecologue––an understanding of natural environments based on the stories of exploitation they communicate. Benjamin’s ecologue questions the supremacy attached to the uniqueness and superiority of human language. At the same time, it preserves the task of human language to turn the wounds of the past into political narratives that interrupt the cycle of environmental destruction. This article examines Benjamin’s theory of language from an ecological perspective, discussing the objection of anthropomorphism, the sadness and mourning of nature, and the pedagogical impulse of a weak ecological power in Benjamin’s political historiography.
Références
ADORNO, Theodor W. Marginalia to Theory and Praxis. In: Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords. Trans. Henry W. Pickford. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. P. 259–278.
ARENDT, Hannah. On Violence. San Diego: Harvest, 1970, 46.
BENJAMIN, Walter. Central Park. In: Selected Writings, eds. Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996–2003a, vol.4.
BENJAMIN, Walter. On Some Motifs in Baudelaire. In: Selected Writings, eds. Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996–2003b, vol. 4.
BENJAMIN, Walter. On Language as Such and on the Language of Man. In: Selected Writings, eds. Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996c–2003.
BENJAMIN, Walter. On the Concept of History. In: Selected Writings, eds. Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996–2003d, vol.4.
BENJAMIN, Walter. One-Way Street. In: Selected Writings. Eds. Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996–2003e, vol. 1.
BENJAMIN, Walter. Outline of the Psychophysical Problem. In: Selected Writings. Eds. Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996–2003f, vol. 1.
BENJAMIN, Walter. Poverty and Experience. In: Selected Writings. Eds. Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996–2003g, vol. 2.
BENJAMIN, Walter. The Complete Correspondence 1910–1940. Trad. Manfred R. Jacobson and Evelyn M. Jacobson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
BENJAMIN, Walter. The Task of the Translator. In: Selected Writings. Eds. Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996–2003h, vol. 1.
BENJAMIN, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility. In: Selected Writings, eds. Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996–2003i, vol. 4,105.
BENJAMIN, Walter. Meine Reise in Italien Pfingsten 1912. In: Selected Writings, eds. Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996–2003j, vol.6.
BENJAMIN, Walter. Short Shadows (II). In: Selected Writings, eds. Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard, 1996–2003k, vol. 2.
BENJAMIN, Walter. Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia. In: Selected Writings, eds. Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard, 1996–2003l, vol 2.
BENJAMIN, Walter. Anmerkungen der Herausgeber. In: Gesammelte Schriften. Eds. Rolf Tiedemann and Hermann Schweppenhäuser: Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1991a, vol. 2.
BENJAMIN, Walter. Die Landschaft von Haubinda. In: Gesammelte Schriften. Eds. Rolf Tiedemann and Hermann Schweppenhäuser (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1991b, vol. 6.
BOOKCHIN, Murray. Social Ecology versus Deep Ecology: A Challenge for the Ecology Movement. The Raven 3, 1987, p. 219–250.
CHAKRABARTY, Dipesh. The Climate of History: Four Theses. Critical Inquiry 35, n. 2, 2009, p.198.
DERRIDA, Jacques. The Animal That Therefore I Am. Ed. Marie-Luise Mallet. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.
FAY, Jennifer. Inhospitable World: Cinema and the Anthropocene. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
FENVES, Peter. The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011, 11, 141.
FERBER, Ilit. Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin’s Early Reflections on Theater and Language. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013, 120, 141.
FERBER, Ilit. Schmerz war ein Staudamm: Benjamin on Pain. In: Benjamin-Studien 3. Eds. Daniel Weidner and Sigrid Weigel. München: Fink, 2014, p. 165–77.
FOURIER, Charles. The Theory of the Four Movements. Ed. Gareth Stedman Jones and Ian Patterson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
HONNETH, Axel. Vorwort. in Sprache und Kritische Theorie. Eds. Philip Hogh and Stefan Deines, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2016.
KITTSTEINER. Heinz Dieter. Erwachen aus dem Traumschlaf. Walter Benjamins Historismus. In: Listen der Vernunft: Motive geschichtsphilosophischen Denkens. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1998, p.150–81.
KLEIN, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014.
KOHLENBACH, Margarete. Walter Benjamin: Self-Reference and Religiosity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, p. 31–32.
LATOUR, Bruno. Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene. New Literary History 45, n. 1, 2014.
MEILLASSOUX, Quentin After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency. London: Continuum, 2009.
MORTON, Timothy. Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence. Columbia: University Press, 2016.
MORTON, Timothy. Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.
NAESS, Arne. The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement. A Summary. Inquiry 16, 1973.
ROBERTS, Julian. Walter Benjamin. London: Macmillan Press, 1982.
SLOTERDIJK, Peter. Terror from the Air. Trad. Amy Patton and Steve Corcoran. Los Angeles: Semiotexte, 2009.
SMITH, Mick. Environmental Anamnesis: Walter Benjamin and the Ethics of Extinction. Environmental Ethics 24, n. 4, 2001, p. 359–376.
WOHLFARTH, Irving. Les noces de ‘Physis’ et de ‘Techne: Walter Benjamin et l’idée d’un matérialisme anthropologique. Cahier Charles Fourier 21, January, 2011, p. 121–30.
YUSOFF, Kathryn. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
Téléchargements
Publiée
Comment citer
Numéro
Rubrique
Licence
(c) Tous droits réservés Dennis Johannßen 2022
Ce travail est disponible sous la licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International .
Esta revista proporciona acesso público a todo seu conteúdo, seguindo o princípio de que tornar gratuito o acesso a pesquisas gera um maior intercâmbio global de conhecimento. Tal acesso está associado a um crescimento da leitura e citação do trabalho de um autor. Para maiores informações sobre esta abordagem, visite Public Knowledge Project, projeto que desenvolveu este sistema para melhorar a qualidade acadêmica e pública da pesquisa, distribuindo o Open Journal Sistem (OJS) assim como outros software de apoio ao sistema de publicação de acesso público a fontes acadêmicas. Os nomes e endereços de e-mail neste site serão usados exclusivamente para os propósitos da revista, não estando disponíveis para outros fins.
A Perspectiva permite que os autores retenham os direitos autorais sem restrições bem como os direitos de publicação. Caso o texto venha a ser publicado posteriormente em outro veículo, solicita-se aos autores informar que o mesmo foi originalmente publicado como artigo na revista Perspectiva, bem como citar as referências bibliográficas completas dessa publicação.
