Conoscere per minuzie. Elementi di gnoseologia in Kierkegaard, Benjamin e McLuhan

This paper aims at investigating the textual relations that link the thoughts of Benjamin (On the Concept of Irony), Mcluhan (Understanding media) e Benjamin (The Origin of German Tragic Drama) in a common reflection on the modes of knowledge. The elements of gnoseology which arise from this reflection have a great significance in media and communication studies. Thereupon, the paper builds-up a constellation of terms complementary each other (observer, image, mythical, dream, discontinuity, consciousness, memory, medium, writing), a plot of motifs aimed at showing in detail the strengthen of a form of knowledge based on time and representation.