Ruina i genealogia historii (Schelling, Simmel, Benjamin)
Ruin and the Genealogy of History (Schelling, Simmel, Benjamin)
Author(s): Monika TokarzewskaSubject(s): History, Philosophy, Studies of Literature, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Sociology, Theology and Religion, Contemporary Philosophy, Marxism, Culture and social structure , Social development, Social Theory, 18th Century, Translation Studies, Theory of Literature, Philosophy of History
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: ruin; historical time(s); modernity; Georg Simmel; Walter Benjamin
Summary/Abstract: The relationship between ruin and the problem of time is only apparent at first glance: a ruin is supposed to be a trace of the past. Based on the conclusions of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s polemic with Immanuel Kant, in which Schelling argued that historical time is not an a priori form of intuition but is enclosed in objects, this article proposes a perception of ruin as the caesura that generates historical time. In particular, interpretations of the motif of ruin in the works of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin show that the time of historical experience created by this motif can provide a correction of collective consciousness in eras threatened by the loss of such experience.
Journal: ER(R)GO. Teoria-Literatura-Kultura
- Issue Year: 2/2025
- Issue No: 51
- Page Range: 11-27
- Page Count: 17
- Language: Polish
