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Index and ImageBenjamin, Héring, Heidegger, and the Phenomenology of History

Index and ImageBenjamin, Héring, Heidegger, and the Phenomenology of History Although Walter Benjamin anticipated a confrontation with Martin Heidegger regarding the theory of historical knowledge, this confrontation was never fully elaborated. This essay contributes to filling out this lacuna by arguing that Benjamin’s concept of the dialectical image was conceived as a phenomenological corrective to Heidegger’s historicity. To clarify the phenomenological sources of Benjamin’s conception of the image, it reads the traces of Benjamin’s engagement with the early phenomenologist Jean Héring in the first sentences of entry “N3,1” in Das Passagen-Werk, where Benjamin presents his notion of the image in explicit opposition to Heidegger. The essay argues that Benjamin relied on Héring’s notion of phenomenological essences as indexically individuated to conceptualize the historical index of the image and to provide a better (i.e., more concrete) way of “saving history for phenomenology” than Heidegger’s historicity. By tracking Benjamin’s debts and departures from Héring, this essay prepares the ground for a reconstruction of Benjamin’s confrontation with Heidegger and argues for the relevance of Benjamin’s conception of history for contemporary critiques of historicism. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Qui Parle Duke University Press

Index and ImageBenjamin, Héring, Heidegger, and the Phenomenology of History

Jesús, Ronald Mendoza–de
Qui Parle , Volume 30 (2) – Dec 1, 2021
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Although Walter Benjamin anticipated a confrontation with Martin Heidegger regarding the theory of historical knowledge, this confrontation was never fully elaborated. This essay contributes to filling out this lacuna by arguing that Benjamin’s concept of the dialectical image was conceived as a phenomenological corrective to Heidegger’s historicity. To clarify the phenomenological sources of Benjamin’s conception of the image, it reads the traces of Benjamin’s engagement with the early phenomenologist Jean Héring in the first sentences of entry “N3,1” in Das Passagen-Werk, where Benjamin presents his notion of the image in explicit opposition to Heidegger. The essay argues that Benjamin relied on Héring’s notion of phenomenological essences as indexically individuated to conceptualize the historical index of the image and to provide a better (i.e., more concrete) way of “saving history for phenomenology” than Heidegger’s historicity. By tracking Benjamin’s debts and departures from Héring, this essay prepares the ground for a reconstruction of Benjamin’s confrontation with Heidegger and argues for the relevance of Benjamin’s conception of history for contemporary critiques of historicism.

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Published: Dec 1, 2021

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    Benjamin, Andrew
  • Literaturgeschichte und Literaturwissenschaft
    Benjamin, Walter Kaulen, Heinrich
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    De Santis, Daniele
  • Wesen, Eidos, Idea: Remarks on the ‘Platonism’ of Jean Héring and Roman Ingarden
    De Santis, Daniele
  • Le ‘puzzle’ Héring
    Feldes, Joachim
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    Fenves, Peter Dickinson, Colby Symons, Stéphane
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    Fenves, Peter Benjamin, Vardoulakis,
  • Edmund Husserl: Das Wesen der Phänomenologie
    Ferencz-Flatz, Christian Nitsche, Jessica Werner, Nadine
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    Ferencz-Flatz, Christian
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    Ferris, David S. Ferris, David S.
  • The Claim of History
    Fynsk, Christopher
  • Jetzt: Walter Benjamin zur historischen Zeit
    Hamacher, Werner Geyer-Ryan, Helga
  • Idee
    Holz, Hans Heinz Opitz, Michael Wizisla, Edmut
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    Ibarlucía, Ricardo
  • Sein-Zeit und Jetztzeit: Benjamins Kritik an Heidegger in neuer Perspektive
    Ibarlucía, Ricardo Bolle, Willi Galle, Helmut
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    Kleinberg, Ethan Scott, Joan Wallach Wilder, Gary
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    Majolino, Claudio Staiti, Andrea
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    Mendicino, Kristina
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    Sahraoui, Nassima. Sieber, Jan Truskolaski, Sebastian
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    Sahraoui, Nassima Nitsche, Jessica Werner, Nadine
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    Steiner, Uwe
  • Manifesto of the V21 Collective