Intermitencia: la diferencial del tiempo y la integral del espacio. la espacialidad intensiva de la mónada, la apocatástasis y el mundo mesiánico en el pensamiento tardío de Walter Benjamin

The main topic of the article concerns the theological-philosophical nexus between the intensive and qualitative spatiality of the Monad and the Origenian idea of Apokatastasis as a nexus that can clarify Benjamin's latest idea of the Messianic World. The first step will be, therefore, to explain Benjamin's use of the Origenian notion of Apokatastasis in his Essay on Leskov and in the Passagenwerk. Secondly, I will discuss how and to what extent such use is relevant for Benjamin's idea of Messianism. Thirdly, I will propose the thesis that, for Benjamin, a messianic idea of time implies a monadological idea of space. The figure of intermittence – as we shall see – expresses in the most suitable way the intertwining of space and time as dialectically and messianicaly oriented. This sequence of logical steps and critical considerations will shed light on the true nature of Benjamin's idea of dialectics and on its relationship to the idea of the totality. T