MICHEL AMARY NETO

Upon departing from Walter Benjamin's "The Origin of German Baroque Drama," this research proposes to give rise to another reading: the concept of allegory, presenting its ethical dimension in the representation of alterity. To achieve this, we must first reconstruct the concept of origin from its genealogical foundations, such as the critique of Hegelian philosophy of history and its appropriation by positivists and Marxists; the Leibnizian influence on German Baroque works and its indirect reception of his philosophy by Benjamin; the formation of Benjamin's monadology as a critical temporal model. Secondly, to give rise to the concept of alterity, defining it in Benjamin's dialogue with Buber and presenting it through the analysis of the issue of the foreigner in Greek tragedies compared to baroque allegorical reception, where the representation of alterity, as another discourse in language, occurs through the apprehension of the representation of feminine martyrdom in figures such as Agrippina, Catharina, and Sophonisbe.