»Hope and the Lessons of Experience«
Keynote von Eva Geulen
Keynote von Eva Geulen im Rahmen der 2021 Conference of the International Walter Benjamin Society: Hoffnung – mit Benjamin neu denken, 4.–6.11.2021
First impressions notwithstanding, hope is not quite as ubiquitous in Benjamin as one might think. Moreover, it is difficult to disentangle from related notions such as salvation / rescue, escape among others. The lecture addresses these problems by focussing on the fact that Benjamin’s notion of hope is not oriented towards the future but the past. With this shift to the past, the idea of experience gains importance. Reading early texts such as The Life of Students and On the Program of a Coming Philosophy up to and including the essay on Goethe’s Elective Affinities the paper hopes to shed some light on early Benjamin's conception of hope.
Eine Kooperation von International Walter Benjamin Society, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, und dem ZfL.
Video: © Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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