On Messiah Concept Of Walter Benjamin's Literary Criticism

Walter Benjamin is one of the most important occidental scholars in the 20th century. The great range of this thinker, critic, social commentator, and theorist makes him win the name of"the last intellectual in the Europe". Benjamin suffered both the First and Second World War, and shaped a very typical mode of thinking. It is an epistemology syncretized with theology.The study on Benjamin in Chinese Mainland still remains in an introducing phase, and most of the discussion ignored the full-scale Benjamin image as a whole. By way of clue regressing, we can find out a method to restitute the theory of Benjamin through the key word"Messiah"."Messiah"can find its origin in Judaism, and it transformed in Benjamin theory."Messiah"is situated the core of Benjamin's literary criticism. He used the word to demonstrate his criticism concept. For the academia of late 19th century, Messiah means going back to the nature itself instead of absolute symbolic logic. On the other hand, Messiah is Benjamin's guide book, directing him to his home of spirit and supporting...