Interpreting The Messianic Ideas In Benjamin 's Historical Philosophy

In the beginning of 20 th Century, European capitalist society crisis increased rapidly and the socialist movements lack position. Benjamin realized the importance of history and time to save the crisis of Modernity and the proletarian revolutionary consciousness. He inspired by the idea of Messiah in Jewish mysticism. He resolved the concept of history, time, revolution and justice in a new way.The idea of Messiah in Jewish culture exceed the traditional framework of religious understanding.It didn’t pursue another perfect word that exceed the real world. In the same way, it exceed the desire to a temporal and future world in historicism and vulgar Marxist. Benjamin use the Messiah to explain transcendent structure of history and political ideas of human reality. It is hidden by the historical and political ideas of modern society positivism.Walter Benjamin emphasize the Messiah in historical and political ideas to reveal possible dimensions of natural structure of being and human liberation and justice in the reality.Walter Benjamin borrowed the idea of the Messiah to regard history as the objective fact piles in the critique of historicism, and vulgar Marx doctrine to historical materialism in the future social commitment and pursuit of justice indefinitely pushed to the vulgar understanding the basis of future, for human existence, the dialectical structure of history and political ideas were revealed, lay the firm foundation for history and polities of exceeding empirical technology.Actully the totally empirical and technological history and polities does not put into action, but the theory did have possible dimensions of exceeding itself.This possibility provides assessing mechanism and motive power of practical activities.