Abstract
This paper presents the dimensions of future in Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history. Benjamin refused a systematized future which caused the oblivion of the failures. Benjamin puts forward a kind of philosophy of history whose future is illuminated by the unjustness of the past to the future. This philosophy of history which is loyal to the ethic of time regards the past as an incomplete one which carries the responsibility of the memory and establishes an ethical relation between the past and the future, opening to the others as widely as possible.
First Page
70
Last Page
75
Recommended Citation
Hu, Guoping. 2017. "The Promise of the Future: Dimensions of Future in Walter Benjamin's Philosophy of History." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 37, (4): pp.70-75. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol37/iss4/16
