O CONCEITO DE HISTÓRIA NATURAL A PARTIR DA OBRA DE ARTE NO PERÍODO BARROCO EM BENJAMIN E ADORNO

Abstract

The text takes off from the considerations on the relation between nature and history in the book Origin of the german tragic drama and this book's interpretation by Adorno on the conference "The idea of natural history", of 1932. Instead of keeping these two concepts as inseparable stable realities, the critical atitude of these two philosophers implicates the concepts' juxtaposition aiming for a subversive comprehension of reality, based more on the decifration and written presentation of philosophical truth in its subjection to history and transience than on its capture as stable and permanent structure in which reality is grounded. In the conclusion that nature no longer exists for humanity, meaning that there is no primary original reality that holds the privilege of the being that must be known, lies the issue of understanding what is produced by history, by modernity, also as a determinant element of the production of nature.