O Pessimismo Revolucionário de Walter Benjamin

Michael Löwy

doi:10.5216/rth.v24i2.71194

Walter Benjamin’s Revolutionary Pessimism

Authors

Michael Löwy Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, França

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/rth.v24i2.71194

Keywords:

Pessimism, Culture , Surrealism , Criticism

Abstract

The cultural pessimism Benjamin claims in his article on Surrealism, from 1929, is resolutely engaged in the most radical leftish field; from his point of view, pessismism is a trace common to the most lucid communists – like french trotskista Pierre Neville – the surrealists.

Author Biography

Michael Löwy, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, França

Currículo: http://www.iea.usp.br/pessoas/CurriculumVitaeMichaelLowy.pdf/view

References

BENJAMIN, Walter. O Surrealismo. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1985.

BENJAMIN, Walter. Rua de mão única. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1995.

NAVILLE, Pierre. La révolution et les intellectuels. Paris, Gallimard, 1965.

STERN, Fritz. Kulturpessimismus als politische Gefahr, Eine Analyse nationaler Ideologie in Deutschland. Munnich, DTV, 1986.

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Published

2021-12-30

How to Cite

LÖWY, Michael. Walter Benjamin’s Revolutionary Pessimism. Revista de Teoria da História, Goiânia, v. 24, n. 2, p. 33–37, 2021. DOI: 10.5216/rth.v24i2.71194. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/teoria/article/view/71194. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.