Historical time, redemption and oppressed in Benjamin

Contributions to the political-cultural praxis

Abstract

We intend to recover some theoretical contributions from the work of Walter Benjamin, with the background of subsidizing interpretive research for the understanding of societal transformations and the political-cultural praxis of the oppressed classes, collective subjects and transformative projects in our America. Taking into consideration the unique understanding and analysis of the historical time that permeates all Benjamin’s work, we will focus on some questions of his last stage, of a more historical-political nature and of a heterodox marxism, and then stop at some categories and dialectical images that are fundamental and intertwined. For this we will address some key concepts, such as historical time, remembrance, redemption, “time now”, oppressed.