ABSTRACT
This chapter offers the reader a way to approach Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History, comparing it with Koans and the I-Ching as well as to a Jewish hermeneutic tradition of detailed re-reading and disputation of the interpretation of sacred texts. The work by Benjamin is also revealed as a strong critique of assumptions on which a dogmatic Marxism could thrive, and the ‘theses’ as a whole are interpreted as providing a critical bulwark against such dogma and presumption.
