CRITICISM TO HISTORICISM AND APODITICAL RATIONALITY IN THESES ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF HISTORY OF WALTER BENJAMIN

Authors

  • Deibson Joaquim dos Santos
  • Edmilson Alves de Azevêdo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v9i2.41257

Keywords:

Apodic reason, Walter Benjamin, historicism.

Abstract

The apodic model of scientific research, since the sixteenth century, has become predominant in scientific research, independent of the objects of study and the specificities of the fields of thought. In this way, historical knowledge was influenced by logical and mathematical rationality, including historiographical cultures were constituted from this model: Historicism, for example, has these characteristics. W. Benjamin, in the Theses on the Concept of History, made several criticisms of the historiographical culture of Historicism, accused the thinkers of this argumentative field of developing empathy with the ruling class. Therefore, in this text, we try to reflect on the motivations of Walter Benjamin and on the way in which Historicism used the apodic reason in its political objectives, in such a way that it stimulated the maintenance of the bourgeois order.

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Published

2018-08-24

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2018)

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Papers

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