El desvío retórico de la crítica en Walter Benjamin

The present work proposes to analyze the rhetorical detour that Walter Benjamin makes in his reading of Kant's critique of metaphysics. Based on this, through a way of expository interpretation, we will address how rhetoric has to deal with a critical task so as to broaden the transcribed domain of possible experience towards an unconditioned background, not reducible under the predominance of the Wissenschaft and its metaphysical-gnoseological assumptions. From the exposition of the articulation among rhetorical critique, Sprache and the rhetorical use of theological figures in some discursive contexts of Benjamin's disquisitions, we will arrive at the final considerations. We state that the rhetorical detour made by the author around criticism is inseparable from a radical critique of the status of systematic philosophical discourse and its idealist underpinning, conceived as a reinvention of categories and aesthetic problems.