Saber do tempo: tradição, experiência e narração em Walter Benjamin.

Abstract

The following article discusses the concepts of tradition, experience, and narrative in Walter Benjamin´s philosophy, from the perspective of educational research. As a critical thinker and protector of culture, Walter Benjamin tried to relate in one philosophical system the multiplicity of knowledge. In Benjamin´s thoughts, the experience (the erfahrung) sustains a close relationship with religion and society. To this extent this paper aims at investigating, beyond the philosophical knowledge of the author, the anthropological references which constitute the mystic and political core of Benjamin’s thought about the concept of experience and analyzing the implication of tradition in the experience of language, history, art and education.