This article presents a reflection about the Benjamin's theory of language. Walter Benjamin, german philosopher and literary critic in the early decades of the twentieth century produced a landmark study in which language can not be considered as a mere instrument of compilers of reality nor as simple abstraction, but is designed as a field in which emerges an intricate network of relationships between knowledge and experience. For the philosopher, the language is the spiritual medium and historical experience. The concept of Erfahrung (experience) runs through all his work: youth from a text written in 1913, entitled Erfahrung (1933), in which the author disputes the disaffection of youth enthusiasm on behalf of the experience of adults, the theses 1940 . This concept is closely related in his writings, the thought that all human manifestations and expressions can be designed as a language, and this, in turn, is then designed in its symbolic dimension, unlike the philosophers who wanted clarification when indicated, as a condition for true knowledge, a rationality that separated the imaginary thinking. Contrary scientific Enlightenment thought, the aesthetic paradigm is essential in benjaminianos writings. From the host of the concept in the image show up new ways of knowing. In this perspective , we attempt to discuss the thought of Benjamin showing joints and ruptures engendered with problematizations formed from existing connections between language and experience and their relation to the education field.
Experience; Language; Knowledge; Walter Benjamin