Philosophy from and against barbarism: Benjamin and Adorno to think of an alternative to the eco-social collapse of the capitalist world

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to approach the phenomenon of ecological collapse in its relation to the philosophy of history through the contributions of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. In this sense, the ecological collapse will be approached as the barbarism of our time, introducing us to one of the concepts with the greatest trajectory in critical theory, to then explore various philosophical ways of dealing with it today.