Time and History: some approximations concerning the present in Walter Benjamin and Martin Buber

Authors

  • Monica Udler Cromberg Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-9800.v0i8p41-59

Keywords:

Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Present, History, Time

Abstract

The concepts of "present" by Martin Buber and Walter Benjamin seem to be equivalent. Buber´s is refered as "Gegenwart", a word that means both "present" (in a temporal sense) and "presence". Benjamin´s is refered as "Jetztzeit". Both them implicate a qualitative time, not a linear, chronological one, and regard the present as breakthrough - as much in the chain of causality as in the determinism of natural and historicist laws - and crossroad of temporalities, where past and future join together.

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Author Biography

  • Monica Udler Cromberg, Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
    Mestranda do Departamento de Letras da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo (FFLCH-USP).

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Published

2002-12-24

Issue

No. 8 (2002)

Section

Articles

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How to Cite

Cromberg, M. U. (2002). Time and History: some approximations concerning the present in Walter Benjamin and Martin Buber. Cadernos De Filosofia Alemã: Crítica E Modernidade, 8, 41-59. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-9800.v0i8p41-59