NP but Walter Benjamin's Theses on History

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On the Philosophy of History?

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 5:08 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
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