@article{ART002858250},
author={Sun Kyu Ha},
title={Walter Benjamin’s Political Philosophy: Focusing on the Concepts of Language, Subject, Truth, and Technology},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2022},
volume={66},
pages={6-40},
doi={10.17527/JASA.66.0.01}
TY - JOUR
AU - Sun Kyu Ha
TI - Walter Benjamin’s Political Philosophy: Focusing on the Concepts of Language, Subject, Truth, and Technology
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2022
VL - 66
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 6
EP - 40
SN - 1229-0246
AB - Walter Benjamin’s life and writings were thoroughly political. Therefore, if one is to reconstruct his “latent” political philosophy, this must encompass his entire work. In this article, I would like to limit the subject and focus on some cornerstones for his political philosophy. These are language, subject, truth, and technology. For Benjamin, language is the object and medium of philosophical thought. In particular, the objective and sober language of critics describing the Idea of the art form itself becomes an ethical and political act. Also, the critic’s language to describe the Idea is the absolute and fundamental domain where the subject-object schema and the common notion about the subject lose all validity. The philosophical truth that Benjamin seeks is not the truth as a neutral fact, but the truth of political practice that always intervenes in concrete socio-political contexts. In Benjamin’s philosophy, technology is a core category of his historical-materialist philosophy of art and historical perception theory. A philosophy of art that does not delve deeply into literary-artistic techniques runs the risk of becoming a reactionary ideology. The aim of this article is to show that Benjamin’s philosophical thinking about language, subject, truth, and technology is intrinsically related to political practice.
KW - philosophy of art;philosophy of language;philosophy of politics;philosophy of technology;theory of truth;Walter Benjamin
DO - 10.17527/JASA.66.0.01
ER -
Sun Kyu Ha. (2022). Walter Benjamin’s Political Philosophy: Focusing on the Concepts of Language, Subject, Truth, and Technology. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 66, 6-40.
Sun Kyu Ha. 2022, "Walter Benjamin’s Political Philosophy: Focusing on the Concepts of Language, Subject, Truth, and Technology", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.66, pp.6-40. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.66.0.01
Sun Kyu Ha "Walter Benjamin’s Political Philosophy: Focusing on the Concepts of Language, Subject, Truth, and Technology" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 66 pp.6-40 (2022) : 6.
Sun Kyu Ha. Walter Benjamin’s Political Philosophy: Focusing on the Concepts of Language, Subject, Truth, and Technology. 2022; 66 6-40. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.66.0.01
Sun Kyu Ha. "Walter Benjamin’s Political Philosophy: Focusing on the Concepts of Language, Subject, Truth, and Technology" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 66(2022) : 6-40.doi: 10.17527/JASA.66.0.01
Sun Kyu Ha. Walter Benjamin’s Political Philosophy: Focusing on the Concepts of Language, Subject, Truth, and Technology. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 66, 6-40. doi: 10.17527/JASA.66.0.01
Sun Kyu Ha. Walter Benjamin’s Political Philosophy: Focusing on the Concepts of Language, Subject, Truth, and Technology. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2022; 66 6-40. doi: 10.17527/JASA.66.0.01
Sun Kyu Ha. Walter Benjamin’s Political Philosophy: Focusing on the Concepts of Language, Subject, Truth, and Technology. 2022; 66 6-40. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.66.0.01
Sun Kyu Ha. "Walter Benjamin’s Political Philosophy: Focusing on the Concepts of Language, Subject, Truth, and Technology" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 66(2022) : 6-40.doi: 10.17527/JASA.66.0.01
