Among princesses and prostitutes:

the allegories of the feminine in Modernity

  • Michel Amary Universidade de São Paulo
Keywords: Walter Benjamin, deutschen Trauerspiel, Modernity, Allegory, Feminin

Abstract

Abstract: This essay propose to investigate the feminine dimension in Walter Benjamin's thought from the allegorical expression of language that is not only shown aesthetically, but is defined as epistemological and ethical category. In this sense, first of all, we will go through the birth of philosophy in the Greeks and its constitution based on male thought to confront Benjamin's epistemological criticism, which announces the truth as beautiful. In the criticism of representation, we already see the question of linguistic identification that differentiates the symbol and the allegory and places them alongside what we call a male and female tradition of thought. After that, we should explore the allegorical use in the representation of queens in the dramas of the German Baroque, presenting, in the moral and political ambiguities of their time, the creature and melancholic dimension of women in the German Baroque and the characterization of history as nature. Finally, we explored in the social transformations caused bythe expansion of the mode of production and circulation of goods in Parisian modernity the transfigurations of allegory by the heroines of Baudelaire.

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Author Biography

Michel Amary, Universidade de São Paulo
Mestre em Filosofia pela Universidade de São Paulo. Defendeu dissertação sobre a formação e a crítica de arte do drama barroco alemão de Walter Benjamin

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Published
2021-05-21
Section
Philosophy and art