The Experience of Time as Crisis
On Croce's and Benjamin's Concept of History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7094396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Axel Korner (0000-0002-0074-6350, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 151-169 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Intellectual History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-6977 • E-ISSN: 1749-6985 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17496977.2011.574342 |
| OpenAlex | W2156095430 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In the early decades of the twentieth century the experience of time as crisis became the catalyst for a fundamental reorientation in the relationship between historical materialism and idealism, leading to the rejection of simplistic mechanical concepts of historical time. This reorientation represents a turning point in the history of European ideas, clearly evident in the work of two major thinkers of this period, usually associated with opposing political ideologies: the Marxist theorist Walter Benjamin and the liberal philosopher Benedetto Croce. Based on a conceptual framework borrowed partly from Reinhart Koselleck, this article explains how the experience of acute crisis led both thinkers to develop a new understanding of historical time, which shows surprising parallels. Both authors used the reorientation in the relationship between idealism and materialism to criticize positivist approaches to the analysis of historical change and to reject deterministic accounts of the future
Aesthetics · Economics · Epistemology · Historical materialism · Idealism · Ideology · Marxist philosophy · Materialism · Parallels · Period (music · Philosophy of history · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Social science · Sociology · Turning point · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |