Uma teoria da história de Walter Benjamin à luz da ideia de memória coletiva

Abstract

This article aims to promote a dialogue between the concept of collective memory and Walter Banjamin’s works. Searching for contributions for the debate of memory and historical narrative, which we could identify as the most important subject in the theory of history by the author. The essays "The image of Proust" (1929), "Experience and Poverty" (1933), "The Storyteller" (1936), "Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility" (1935) and "On the Concept of History" (1940) will be analyzed prioritizing the aforementioned concept, in order to establish a connection among the texts. Through a reflexive effort, not a philological one, this essay hopes to develop Benjamin's proposal since the author suggests a new paradigm for historiography along his work. At the end of this text, I try to demonstrate how Benjamin's works are indispensable for the criticism of the discipline either to reinforce the collective memory's importance for the theory of history and to contribute for the challenges for history writing