Under the Sign of Catastrophe: Actuality and Historicity from the Critical Theory

Authors

  • Diogo Cesar Nunes UNIABEU Centro Universitário

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35588/pa.v9i16.3633

Keywords:

Critical Theory of Society, Historical Time, Catastrophe, Neoliberalism

Abstract

The notes composing this paper, assembled in an essayistic and fragmented manner, aim to guide a reading plan that confront the contemporary, or neoliberal, experience of time, and the regime of historicity implied in it, to Benjamin's notion of "catastrophe". It attempts to revisit the "critical power" of the dialectic, as worked out by the Critical Theory of Society, especially in Adorno (1982; 1991; 2013; 2015) and Benjamin (1994; 2007; 2011; 2013) and present in contemporary thinkers such as Agamben (2004; 2014) and Žižek (2011; 2014; 2016) to argue for a non-totalized interpretation of reality. The objective is argue the link, although not evident, of politics in relation to the historicity of subjectivity and to epistemological theories, specifically to the theory of History.

Author Biography

  • Diogo Cesar Nunes, UNIABEU Centro Universitário

    Historiador; mestre e doutor em Psicologia Social. Professor da UNIABEU Centro Universitário (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil).

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Published

2019-09-10

How to Cite

Under the Sign of Catastrophe: Actuality and Historicity from the Critical Theory. (2019). Palimpsesto, 9(16), 56-68. https://doi.org/10.35588/pa.v9i16.3633