To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it ‘the way it was…’ It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes by in a moment of danger.
Walter Benjamin
Theses on the Philosophy of History, Section VI
To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it ‘the way it was…’ It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes by in a moment of danger.
Walter Benjamin
Theses on the Philosophy of History, Section VI
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