Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Marshall, David L.

Titel

THE INTRICATION OF POLITICAL AND RHETORICAL INQUIRY IN WALTER BENJAMIN

Ist Teil von

• History of political thought, 2013, Vol.34 (4), p.702-737

Ort / Verlag

Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Scholars have largely ignored Walter Benjamin's assertion that his work was a continuation of initiatives begun by Giambattista Vico and Carl Gustav Jochmann. But Benjamin's assertion is important. It situates his work in a tradition of rhetorical inquiry. In turn, rhetorical inquiry ought to be understood as a form of political thought. This article traces the intrication and development of Benjamin's rhetorical and political interests from his early work on Trauerspiel through a sequence of texts written before and after the fall of the Weimar Republic in 1933, up to and including the various redactions of the 'Kunstwerk' essay.