
Walter Benjamin’s ”The Concept of History”
Theory & Philosophy
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Benjamin's Opposite of Historical Materialism
Benjamin is not totally clear in what he thinks of the chronicler or their place. The historian is always implicated within certain normative understandings and really preferences for what gets told and retold historically. So any society that is fully opened up to their past would only do so at a moment so significant as that of like judgment day, says Beni Minh.
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