Capitalism and Primal History in Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5072930 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Duy Lap Nguyen (0009-0001-4239-9174, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 123-143 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | differences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1040-7391 • E-ISSN: 1527-1986 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10407391-2847973 |
| OpenAlex | W2343325924 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
This essay proposes a reading of Walter Benjamin's attempt to develop a historical materialist critique of phenomenological theories of time, including those of Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Edmund Husserl. In the Arcades Project, these theories of time-which Benjamin describes as different accounts of "primal history"-are characterized as the historical products of industrial capitalism as a particular mode of production. Drawing on Marx's analysis of the contradiction between the relations and forces of production, Benjamin identifies factory labor and crises in industrial capitalism as historically determinate forms of experience (Erlebnis) that paradoxically expose the process through which time-and thus history-is originarily constituted or temporalized
Capitalism · Contradiction · Economics · Epistemology · Historical materialism · Marxist philosophy · Materialism · Mode of production · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
Phenomenology World-Wide
Husserl and the Promise of Time
The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940
Cartesian Meditations
Grundrisse
Nietzsche and Philosophy
The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic
Capital
Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology of Habituality and Habitus
Ideas pertaining to a pure phenomenology and to a phenomenological philosophy
The origin of German tragic drama
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |