An anarchist conjuration. The Benjamin-Bataille meeting and the critique of left-wing progressism
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The article explores the theoretical complicities between the thought of Walter Benjamin and Georges Bataille. Taking as a starting point the anecdote of the Book of Passages, according to which Benjamin would have entrusted this manuscript to the care of Bataille, questions are raised about the possible link between the two thinkers. The relationship that both authors maintained with the leftist political thought of the time and the way in which their revolutionary conceptions distance themselves from orthodox Marxism and dialectical materialism are particularly problematized. In this way, through an analysis of Benjamin's gothic Marxism and Bataille's cursed materialism, an anarchist political trait common to both is noted, which leads to a critique of left-wing progressivism with Soviet roots.
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