Redefinición y transvaloración del concepto de historia: Benjamin entre nosotros.

This paper discloses a personal interpretation --by no means arbitrary-- of the text On the concept of history or Thesis on the philosophy of history by Walter Benjamin, read in a situated manner: a reading whose penetrating sight pretends to be from Latin America. It will be insisted in the exceptional critique of Benjamin's work, suggesting that his proposal reaches a redefinition and transvaluation of the concept of history, one that usually determines us and prevents any act, any revolutionary praxis, which in times like ours are required more than ever. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]