Валтер Бенямин: образът като опит за микроистория – от бароковата драма до улиците на Париж
Walter Benjamin: The Image as an Attempt of Microhistory – from the Germane Tragic Play to the Streets of Paris

Summary/Abstract: This text is about the relationship between image and history in the work of Walter Benjamin and the possible applications of his theory in the field of Microhistory. It begins with the theory of allegory in Origin of germane tragic play and continues discussing the problem in Arcades Project with the idea of dialectical images. The image is an appropriate methodological instrument for analyzing the culture, everyday life and economy as product of social imaginary. Also this method may transform the history into a politic of resistance, which denies the status-quo and the misuses of power. This Marxist approach is combined with motives of Jewish eschatology which allow the definition of the present moment from the point of view of the Messianic.

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