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Doing Justice - Three Essays on Walter Benjamin (Hardcover)
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Doing Justice - Three Essays on Walter Benjamin (Hardcover)
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Pablo Oyarzun is one of the foremost Benjamin scholars in Latin
America. His writings have shaped the reception of Benjamin's work
in Latin America and have been central to the effort to identify
the tasks and responsibilities of the kind of critical theory that
would interrupt social violence. In this book Oyarzun examines some
of the key concepts in Benjamin's work - including his concepts of
translation, experience, history and storytelling - and relates
them to his own systematic reflection on the nature and
implications of 'doing justice'. What is meant by the words
'justice was done'? The passive voice is important here. On the one
hand, justice does nothing: it is not an agent, it can only prevail
or fail, and if it fails, it does so without limit. On the other
hand, the passive voice alludes to the agents of an action while
covering them up; the allusion is the masking of the identity and
traces of the person who accomplishes the action. And this cover-up
can be dangerous: it can cover-up the executioners, who are
subjects that everyone can confirm anonymously, without their being
recognized and without their wanting to be recognized. Justice,
argues Oyarzun, can only be done in the active effort to do justice
- or, as Benjamin would say, in the striving to turn the world into
the highest good. This book by one of Chile's most distinguished
philosophers will be of value to anyone interested in Benjamin's
work and in the development of critical theory in Latin America.
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