The concern for the unconditional and messianism Jacques Derrida, reader of Walter Benjamin

Ideas Y Valores 68 (169):241-253 (2019)
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RESUMEN W. Benjamin expresa su inquietud política en las tesis acerca de la "violencia revolucionaria" como "excepción divina", valorada por J. Derrida como una ruptura histórica; esto permite ver una analogía e incluso una continuidad en estos autores. Sin embargo, Derrida subraya la inadecuación política y el efecto "insoportable" del planteamiento de Benjamin. Se intenta comprender el fondo de esta crítica y avanzar hacia una hipótesis que haga converger las dos problematizaciones de la violencia y las complemente con el tema mesiánico y el problema de la responsabilidad. ABSTRACT W. Benjamin expresses his political concerns in his theses on "revolutionary violence" as "divine exception". J. Derrida sees this as a historical rupture, a fact that allows for an analogy and even a continuity between the two authors. However, Derrida highlights the political inadequacy and the "unbearable" effect of Benjamin's formulation. The article seeks an in-depth understanding of this critique in order to advance toward a hypothesis that makes the two approaches to violence converge and that complements them with a discussion of Messianism and the issue of responsibility.

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