A Phantasmagorical Image: Modernity, Capitalism and Religion in Walter Benjamin

Authors

  • Pedro Javier Pérez Díaz Universidad Andrés Bello

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22370/rhv2018iss12pp169-186

Keywords:

cult, God, loan, city, flaneur

Abstract

The analysis of the posthumous text of Benjamin, titled Capitalism as religion, show a certeral diagnosis about the progression of capitalism of XX and XXI century, in which its cult aspect have been attached to the images that dwell the city, and in some way, it constitute her, reconfigurating at the same time, his urban planning. The notion of phantasmagoria it is key to understand how this capitalistic religion has been introduced and totalized in men life, in the sense that has transformed space in an image for-itself of capital, being, in conclussion, in an intrinsec union with a phantasmagorical politics that require the city for the perpetuation of his cult.

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Published

2018-12-20

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Pérez Díaz, P. J. (2018). A Phantasmagorical Image: Modernity, Capitalism and Religion in Walter Benjamin. Revista De Humanidades De Valparaíso, (12), 169–186. https://doi.org/10.22370/rhv2018iss12pp169-186

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No. 12 (2018): No 12 (2018)

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Monographic Section

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