A QUESTÃO DA VIDA NOS PRIMEIROS ESCRITOS DE WALTER BENJAMIN

Abstract

The present work aims to present a detailed analysis of the first works of
Walter Benjamin, his construction and influences, as well as the way in which they bring the question of life in his argumentation. Elaborated in the 1910s, at the height of the author's youth, in addition to bringing the "natural anxieties" of age, such as the relationship between parents and children, the choice of vocational training, the discovery of sexuality or the beginning of life's responsibilities adult, these writings
present the constitution of a powerful thought in relation to the theme of life. One can say that these first writings present an eccentric philosophy of the life of the author. Marked by the reformist proposals of the period, by activism in the student movement,
by the neo-Kantian and Nietzschean university formation, these early works of
Benjamin are the germ of a new way of thinking about life in its relations with
language, the arts and history that will mark whole set of the work of the thinker.