"Leer lo que nunca fue escrito": hacia una hermenéutica política

Abstract

In a note from “On the concept of history” Walter Benjamin defines the historical principle: “To read what was never written, says Hofmannsthal. The reader in question is the true historian.” History is presented as a dialectical image of memory: History decays into images, not into stories, which attain to legibility only at a particular time, in the now the remembrance. This readability is the exact counterpart of the current hermeneutical principle, according to which any work may be read at any time as an object of infinite interpretation, in the double sense that is never depleted, and that is independent of its historical time.

DOI  http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/ag.34.1.1759