Abstract
Many works from memory studies and the aesthetics theory conceive the pairs history-memory and aestheticization-politicization as conformed by opposite terms. According to them, the "history" and "aestheticization" would have the object of manipulating political wills, through the mobilization of collective passions, fascinating images and magical beliefs. This thesis seeks to disarticulate the rigidity of the above mentioned oppositions, starting from a theory that gives account of the place and the functions that these terms have in the political present. Our main hypothesis holds that the notion of "image" developed in the works of Abraham Moritz Warburg (1866-1929) and Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) offers an inescapable epistemological contribution to this disarticulation.