Diadalmas utópia - ócska polgári világ - totalitarizmus : A létező szocializmus változó víziói Walter Benjamin marxizmusának keleti értelmezéseiben = Triumphant Utopia-Shabby Bourgeois WorldTotalitarianism. Transmuting Visions of Real Existing Socialism in Eastern Interpretations of Walter Benjamin's Marxism

Gángó, Gábor (2025) Diadalmas utópia - ócska polgári világ - totalitarizmus : A létező szocializmus változó víziói Walter Benjamin marxizmusának keleti értelmezéseiben = Triumphant Utopia-Shabby Bourgeois WorldTotalitarianism. Transmuting Visions of Real Existing Socialism in Eastern Interpretations of Walter Benjamin's Marxism. In: Budapesti Iskola Narratívák. Budapest Főváros Levéltára - Budapesti Iskola Archívum, Budapest, pp. 245-279. ISBN 9786155635328

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Abstract

This study deals with different interpretations of Walter Benjamin's Marxism in the early 197os in two countries of the Soviet Bloc: East Germany and Hungary. Similar to the debates in the GDR of the early 1970s, Sándor Radnóti's road to Walter Benjamin was also situated within the context of the polemic between the Frankfurt School and the review alternative regarding the appropriation of Benjamin's work. In contrast to the German scene, Radnoti sought a third way by presenting Benjamin as a theoretical support of the political orientation towards democratic socialism. In comparison with the reception in the GDR, the paper reconstructs the intellectual constellation that made Radnóti's decision possible as well as the subsequent "Frankfurtization" of Benjamin's interpretation, which absorbed the later approaches of the Budapest School to Benjamin as well. Radnóti's advocation of collective culture as a vehicle of pluralist and resonant structures poses a challenge to the comparative theory of East European totalitarianism and its reverberations in current Critical Theory in the form of forced resonance.

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