Resumen de Benjamin and Hegel, a constellation in metaphysics: Walter Benjamin-Lectures at the Càtedra Walter Benjamin
These lectures, given in 2014 at the "Catedra Walter Benjamin", examine the philosophical relations between two of the greatest modern German philosophers, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich hegel and Walter Benjamin. It is shown what close connections especially Benjamin's Epistemo-Critical prologue has to some fundamental aspects of Hegel's metaphysics and epistemology. By illuminating a certain compatibility of approaches between German Idealism and Early Critical theory concerning the possibility and necessity of metaphysical ideas and theories, the lectures demostrate why modernity cannot simply be calles a "postmetaphysical" age Metaphysics is not only necessary for philosophy in oder to treat its subjects matters appropriately, but it is also essential for humans' spiritual as well as practical freedom, particulary in the modern age.
