The 'Question' of Evil and Modernity. Regarding a Reading from Walter Benjamin

This paper presents the 'question' of evil in direct relation to modernity. The proposed theses hold that evil cannot be studied by searching for its origins, but by inscribing it within specific historical and cultural coordinates. In this case, the coordinates are located in the modern w...

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Published in:Revista de estudios sociales (Bogotá, Colombia) Colombia), 2014-09, Vol.50 (50), p.155-155
Main Author: Garcia, Alexander Hincapie
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Benjamin, Walter
Cultural identity
Cultural influence
Evil
Modernity
Social anthropology
Social assimilation
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Summary:This paper presents the 'question' of evil in direct relation to modernity. The proposed theses hold that evil cannot be studied by searching for its origins, but by inscribing it within specific historical and cultural coordinates. In this case, the coordinates are located in the modern world and a Modernity that launched the promise of progress and in fact opened the door to anthropological correction, disguising it as a necessary gesture for re-founding humanity itself. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0123-885X
DOI:10.7440/res50.2014.15