O desvio como método a partir da ideia de infância: uma conversação com a infância em Berlim por volta de 1900 de Walter Benjamin

Abstract

The present speech consists in a study on the conception of method for the thinker Walter Benjamin. For in such a way, the study was divided in two chapters: Biography and correspondences - a life in the transit of the method and Infancy and politics – the method in Infancy in Berlin for 1900 return. In the first chapter the reader offers itself to it more discussable aspects so that if he can reach, in the last chapter a detailed dialogue with the fundamental workmanship - Infancy in Berlin for 1900 return – here worked. The reconstitution of the method that Benjamin thinks to the philosophy is reconstituted through a cumulative work, that is, to each item of the work we bring new elements that until then they had not been developed, thus looking for, to offer an organization that it goes and it comes back to the points to each moment, but makes to gain body to the question proposal. Therefore, one worked in the first chapter with prompt elements of the life of Benjamin, relating to the conception of method, the two inheritances that had influenced the thinker - Judaism and historical materialism and the reconstitution of the theory of the knowledge in Benjamin, detailing its dialogue with Descartes. No longer according to chapter, the method is retaken from the infancy idea that the thinker offers in five assays written between 1924 the 1928. These assays had directly reverberated in the understanding of a conceived method as shunting line, having the participation key of the concept of repetition in Freud and Nietzsche and the practical unfolding of the accomplishment of the workmanship studies. It is in this chain of parts that the classic story the wild Swans gains body and starts to produce a peculiar direction in this work: the fusing this story will represent the metaphoric materialization of Benjamin from the Eliza personage.