NP but Walter Benjamin's Theses on History

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Wed Dec 11 18:11:40 UTC 2019


I think it has bon translated and published that way too....
also as Theses on History.

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 1:10 PM ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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