Benjamin y Wittgenstein. Una aproximación morfológica

Abstract

This paper explores the methodological affinity between the work of Walter Benjamin and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Benjamin’s attempt to develop a new method of historical representation focuses on the category of “origin”, which underlies his most remarkable historical researches. Parallel to Benjamin, also Wittgenstein paid special attention to the problem of a philosophical presentation of phenomena, especially in his researches on language, through categories such as the “perspicuous representation” or the “aspect seeing”. The common filiation of both authors reflection on Goethes’s morphology will allow us to profile a possible aesthetic approach of philosophical research, aimed at the same time at grasping the generality of phenomena and at saving their individual uniqueness.

DOI  http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/ag.34.1.1664