CHAIANNE MARIA DA SILVA FARIA

The object of the thesis is Benjamin's monad, primarily examined from its contribution to the theory of history and within a textual spectrum that begins with the letter to Rang dated December 9, 1923, and extends to the *Arcades Project* and the texts conceived around it. The goal is to analyze the internal history of the concept, its transformations in Benjaminian thought, and the specific status of its emergence as a quotation. The thesis's main methodological choices lie in rejecting a vague notion of influence as the principle governing the constitution of Benjamin's concept of the monad and in prioritizing the specifically Benjaminian modes of imagistic-conceptual thought, particularly in its relation to history, as the privileged perspective for examining the logic inherent to Benjamin's monad. The central hypothesis of the research as a whole is that Benjamin's historiography can be understood as a montage of monadological processes that transform singular cultural objects in motion between their pre-history and post-history.