Mito e violência: a politização da "mera vida" em Walter Benjamin

Abstract

The reading of Walter Benjamin’s philosophy that we propose here has as a guideline an attempt to follow the way that leads to the construction, or the production, of the non-political life, the “mere life”, in our days, based on Agamben and other commentators. Thus, the work’s main objective is to reflect on how this life, always included through an exclusion, is politicized, i.e., how a political value is attributed to it and what its representations are in benjaminian theory