NP but Walter Benjamin's Theses on History

[Mark Kohut]

The most famous fragment, which lies at the heart of the work, was inspired
by Paul Klee’s painting *Angelus Novus*, which Benjamin received from
Scholem, who gave it to him with a poem titled: “Greetings from the Angelus
on July 15.” The painting accompanied Benjamin for some 20 years of his
life, and, as he describes it, pictures the angel of history being blown
backward into the future by the forces of progress piling ruins at his feet.