The Burden of the Past, the Dialectics of the Present
Notes on Virginia Woolf's and Walter Benjamin's Philosophies of History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12917382 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sanja Bahun (0000-0002-8882-4850, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 100-115 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modernist Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-8629 • E-ISSN: 2041-1022 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/e2041102209000367 |
| OpenAlex | W1967280399 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
Writing in a Paris rife with war-anxieties, refugees and political plots, a stateless individual by the name of Walter Benjamin recorded on 11 January 1940: “Every line that we succeed in publishing today - given the uncertainty of the future to which we consign it - is a victory wrested from the power of darkness.” The fusion of desperation and mystical activism in the face of historical horror, expressed in Benjamin's last letter to Gershom Scholem, was echoed across the Channel. Only ten days later, Virginia Woolf - assailed by a mixture of historical, financial, creative and publishing worries - responded to a commission to write about peace by stating that the “views on peace [...] spring from views on war.”
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |