VIOLÊNCIA REVOLUCIONÁRIA COMO EXPRESSÃO DE JUSTIÇA E INTERRUPÇÃO DO CURSO HISTÓRICO EM WALTER BENJAMIN
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History, Justice, Revolution, Teleology, ViolenceAbstract
The present work aims at demonstrating that a close reading of the text Towards the Critique of Violence, written by Walter Benjamin in 1921, provides notable support to the comprehension of the author’s proposal of revolution as interruptive action in his theses “On the Concept of History” (1940). Thus, the grounds of the Benjaminian categorization of violence are discussed and it is clarified that revolutionary violence is understood not as having justice as a goal, but as being itself an expression of justice. Therewith, Benjamin’s opposition to evolutionary Marxism can be analyzed in further details, as also his assertion that the revolution constitutes an interruption of historical process instead of a result of it.
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