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Funes, Patricia
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This thesis analyzes the written production of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) and José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930), emphasizing their conceptualizations about politics and the points of comparison that can be established between both theoretical concepts. After describing the historical context of the authors, I establish a series of comparisons between their theorizations in relation to some topics of interest in their work that contribute to reconstruct their conceptions of politics. I give special attention to the dimension of religion in order to the understand the links the authors establish between Marxism, religion and politics.
Although the theoretical-political affinity between these authors has already been explored, there are no researches that contrast exhaustively their writings and life trajectories. Methodologically, considering that the research is based on a vast theoretical corpus and a complex work of interpretative elaboration, I decided to combine research tools of two different -but linked- disciplines: critical theory and intellectual history.
After the research process that this thesis aims to account for, I argue that understanding the conceptual link mentioned above approaches two central dimensions in both author’s work. First, the one that points to the religious experience as totalizing and oriented to build social bonds in a way that links it to political experience. Second, the theological key that can direct the political thought to another form of understanding social and historical events and the possibility of producing knowledge. I refer to the mystical experience as a cognitive experience and a political appropriation of the vital. I understand these two dimensions in these author’s work, as part of the fracture on the the sense of modernity that resulted after the global crises of 1920’s.
This fracture -that includes a strong re- siginification of Western civilization and nineteenthcentury ideology- combines, in both Mariátegui and Benjamin's contexts of socialization, with particular contacts with cultural traditions and religious heritages. I do not consider that the links between both thinkers are explicable only based on their (synchronic) contemporaneity. I understand that the theoretical similarities are also due to the importance assumed by the religious dimension in the biography and training of both authors. One influenced by Christian mysticism (Mariátegui), another by Judaic messianism (Benjamin), both authors have a clear transcendental life-search that starts from their youth and that is constitutive of their political during their lifetime.
From reviewing these links I aim to build an expanded conceptualization of the (revolutionary) politics which generates displacements within the Marxist tradition and general political theory. I argue that for both authors politics are combat, struggle and confrontation. Underlies an agonistic idea of politics that poses conflict as the fate of society, an idea that in the amplification proposed constitutes an interesting contribution to contemporary political theory. For these reasons I want to establish how their proposals and analysis generate tensions within historical materialism and produce conceptualizations that may be useful for understanding the global political transformations that we have witnessed in recent decades.
Although the theoretical-political affinity between these authors has already been explored, there are no researches that contrast exhaustively their writings and life trajectories. Methodologically, considering that the research is based on a vast theoretical corpus and a complex work of interpretative elaboration, I decided to combine research tools of two different -but linked- disciplines: critical theory and intellectual history.
After the research process that this thesis aims to account for, I argue that understanding the conceptual link mentioned above approaches two central dimensions in both author’s work. First, the one that points to the religious experience as totalizing and oriented to build social bonds in a way that links it to political experience. Second, the theological key that can direct the political thought to another form of understanding social and historical events and the possibility of producing knowledge. I refer to the mystical experience as a cognitive experience and a political appropriation of the vital. I understand these two dimensions in these author’s work, as part of the fracture on the the sense of modernity that resulted after the global crises of 1920’s.
This fracture -that includes a strong re- siginification of Western civilization and nineteenthcentury ideology- combines, in both Mariátegui and Benjamin's contexts of socialization, with particular contacts with cultural traditions and religious heritages. I do not consider that the links between both thinkers are explicable only based on their (synchronic) contemporaneity. I understand that the theoretical similarities are also due to the importance assumed by the religious dimension in the biography and training of both authors. One influenced by Christian mysticism (Mariátegui), another by Judaic messianism (Benjamin), both authors have a clear transcendental life-search that starts from their youth and that is constitutive of their political during their lifetime.
From reviewing these links I aim to build an expanded conceptualization of the (revolutionary) politics which generates displacements within the Marxist tradition and general political theory. I argue that for both authors politics are combat, struggle and confrontation. Underlies an agonistic idea of politics that poses conflict as the fate of society, an idea that in the amplification proposed constitutes an interesting contribution to contemporary political theory. For these reasons I want to establish how their proposals and analysis generate tensions within historical materialism and produce conceptualizations that may be useful for understanding the global political transformations that we have witnessed in recent decades.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales