Journal title PARADIGMI
Author/s Roy Amir
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2017/1
Language English Pages 18 P. 61-78 File size 266 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2017-001005
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Walter Benjamin reads Kant (and Cohen) under the assumption that a notion of mediation is essential for any philosophical theory of knowledge and experience. He thus strives to enable a ?higher" concept of experience by substituting the Kantian formal intuition with symbolic language as a non-formal medium. Cohen, on the other hand, explores the possibility of a system which lacks any notion of mediation. In this the Author discusses these mutually excluding notions of knowledge and their consequences, ethical and theological. He concludes by claiming that an irreducible abyss separates Cohen’s ethical notion of Messianism from Benjamin’s political one, an abyss which makes it problematic to consider them under the common project of political-theology.
Keywords: Herman Cohen, Walter Benjamin, Erkenntniskritik, Messianism, Neo-Kantianism, Presentation.
Roy Amir, Messianism and the possibility of knowledge in Cohen and Benjamin in "PARADIGMI" 1/2017, pp 61-78, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2017-001005