About criticis: present, history, and subject in Lukács and Benjamin

Abstract

This work seeks to contrast Lukács and Benjamin to shed light on the link between them. For this, we seek to proceed along three axes: describe how these authors understand the present, as ominous as it is hot, in which they are located and the way in which this situation determines the conception of history; then specify the way in which criticism of the current pernicious situation should be raised; and, finally, the conceptualization that each one carries out on the subject of history and the forms of its constitution or its appearance implied by the determined form of its relationship with historical time. Through these points we believe that the as tentative as incipient thesis of the work could be verified: that the critical meanings that Lukács and Benjamin handle are disruptive with respect to each other.