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By Matthias Fritsch
Rereading Marx via Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, The Promise of reminiscence makes an attempt to set up a philosophy of liberation. Matthias Fritsch explores how stories of injustice relate to the guarantees of justice that democratic societies have inherited from the Enlightenment. targeting the Marxist promise for a classless society, because it incorporates a political promise whose institutionalization resulted in totalitarian results, Fritsch argues that either stories and supplies, if taken via themselves, are one-sided and probably justify violence in the event that they don't consider the implicit relation among them. He examines Benjamin’s reinterpretation of Marxism after the disgruntlement of the Russian and German revolutions and Derrida’s “messianic” inheritance of Marx after the breakdown of the Soviet Union. The booklet additionally contributes to modern political philosophy by way of concerning Marxist social pursuits and German serious concept to debates approximately deconstructive ethics and politics.
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He rejects it here primarily on political grounds: He holds it responsible for the quietism we discussed earlier. Further, this passage indicates that, contrary to a widespread understanding of messianism, Benjamin opposes the ‘messianic face’ to the idea of an ‘end’ of history, con- BENJAMIN’S READING OF MARX 35 ceived as a progressive unfolding that moves toward its goal. ) The messianic face that Benjamin wishes to restore to Marx’s promise designates a certain relationship with a future that disallows any closure or totality of ‘the’ past or history, whose unity and univocity is thus put into question in an effort to recover the ‘richness of layers’ of which Benjamin had spoken in his early treatment of the Historical School (VI 95).
For the moment, let us note that Benjamin’s revision concerning the question of history and temporality allows him to ask about the interests, prejudices, and conceptual presuppositions that the present brings to its reading of the past. The revision implies that the present and the past stand in a dialectical relationship to each other in which the one influences and conditions the other. In his own way, then, Benjamin arrives at an insight that has become commonplace since Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit and Gadamer’s Wahrheit und Methode in particular: the insight into the dialectical interpenetration, the hermeneutic circle, of the past and the present.
12 18 THE PROMISE OF MEMO RY Instead, he divides the problematic collective singular of ‘the past’ up into the nightmarish dream and its latent meaning striving for its release: Fulfilling the past’s project, what Marx calls a ‘world-historical task,’ precisely requires abandoning the dream- and ghostlike form which that which ‘is’ no longer tends to assume. ”13 Thus, at different stages of his career, Marx argues for a ‘cheerful’ separation from a past seen as superstitiously hampering historical development.