Nietzsche’s Nihilism in Walter Benjamin by Mauro Ponzi

By Mauro Ponzi

This book reconstructs the traces of nihilism that Walter Benjamin took from Friedrich Nietzsche that define both his conception of artwork and the avant-garde, and his method of political motion. It retraces the eccentric course of Benjamin's philosophical discourse within the illustration of the trendy as a spot of “permanent catastrophe”, the place he makes an attempt to beat the Nietzschean nihilism via messianic wish. utilizing conventions from literary feedback this e-book explores the various resources of Benjamin's inspiration, demonstrating that in the back of the materialism which Benjamin contains into his Theses at the thought of History is hidden Nietzsche's nihilism. Mauro Ponzi analyses how Benjamin’s Arcades Project uses figures corresponding to Baudelaire, Marx, Aragon, Proust and Blanqui as allegories to provide an explanation for many points of modernity. the writer argues that Benjamin makes use of Baudelaire as a paradigm to stress the darkish aspect of the fashionable period, providing us a key to the translation of communicative and cultural traits of today. 

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