The Flâneur in Time’s Constellation: On the Idea of Time in Walter Benjamin’s Thinking about Modernity

HU Guoping

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HU Guoping. The Flâneur in Time’s Constellation: On the Idea of Time in Walter Benjamin’s Thinking about Modernity[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2019, 2(3): 508-519.

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HU Guoping. The Flâneur in Time’s Constellation: On the Idea of Time in Walter Benjamin’s Thinking about Modernity[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2019, 2(3): 508-519.

HU Guoping. The Flâneur in Time’s Constellation: On the Idea of Time in Walter Benjamin’s Thinking about Modernity[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2019, 2(3): 508-519.

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HU Guoping. The Flâneur in Time’s Constellation: On the Idea of Time in Walter Benjamin’s Thinking about Modernity[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2019, 2(3): 508-519.

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The Flâneur in Time’s Constellation: On the Idea of Time in Walter Benjamin’s Thinking about Modernity

HU Guoping

Tongji University

Received Date: 2018-11-29
Publish Date: 2021-03-09

Abstract

Abstract

This paper focuses on Walter Benjamin’s concept of time constellation, then discusses Benjamin’s idea of time. The foundation of Benjamin’s thinking about modernity lies in his creative interpretation of time, in which the present relates with the past in a constellation, thus destroying and reconstructing the idea of the modernity of time. In such a temporal model, history is expressed as a dialectical exchange between the past and the present. The straight line of historical time is cut off and the utopian potential of repressed memory is released. Thus it changes the present into a moment with ethical power. The flâneur is the bearer and revealer of this experience of time.
- Walter Benjamin,
- modernity,
- constellation,
- flâneur,
- idea of time

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