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Abstract:
Facing history in its details and fragmentations in order to portray an idea is what Walter Benjamin followed in his life-long projects and can be an ambition for all cultural researchers who investigate their cultural heritage in relation with present time. This paper relies on epistemological and ontological capacities, found in Benjaminian methodological concepts, study Ursprung (Origin) and Konstellation (Constellation) to open up a new horizon to cultural history, in which, past is used to illuminate present. "Concept", "idea" and "phenomena" are defined as the key concepts in making constellation and their relation with "origin" as their historical context is elaborated. The resulted "dialectic Image", is the hoped-for product of a method which the fragments themselves could not demonstrate, nor theoretical formulations predict.
Keywords:
Constellation , Origin , Jetztzeit , Idea , History
Language:
Persian
Published:
Journal of Social Sciences, Volume:21 Issue: 2, 2015
Page:
241
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