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Revista de Estudios Sociales
Print version ISSN 0123-885X
Abstract
GASCA SALAS, Jorge. “Lost in the City” in Walter Benjamin. Explanation and Connotations. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2020, n.71, pp.28-39. ISSN 0123-885X. https://doi.org/10.7440/res71.2020.03.
This essay theoretically reviews the different meanings and implications of Walter Benjamin's phrase “lost in the city”. To explain and investigate the different senses, a relationship is established between the city and certain categories that make theoretical exploration possible: poetic to inhabit, existence in rupture and a dialectical transcendence of sense, notions from which it is possible to construct a fundamental nexus. The in-depth review of Benjamin's phrase is linked to the critique of capitalist modernity from a conception of the world à rebours and a historical-dialectic view proper to the thinker of the arcades of Paris.
Keywords : City; dialectical transcendence of sense; existence-in-rupture; lost in the city; poetic to inhabit.