K filosofii zbitého myšlení. Dialektika citovatelného gesta podle Waltera Benjamina
In Praise of Beaten Thinking: On Benjamin’s Dialectic of Quotable Gesture
Author(s): Josefína FormanováSubject(s): Philosophy, Cultural history, History of Philosophy, Recent History (1900 till today), Hermeneutics, Sociology of Art, Philosophy of History
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: Walter Benjamin; Bertolt Brecht; quotable gesture; principle of gestural citation
Summary/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.
Journal: Reflexe
- Issue Year: 2024
- Issue No: 66-67
- Page Range: 87-110
- Page Count: 24
- Language: Czech
