...into the future, but has his face "turned toward the past." "Where a chain of events appears to tw, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling...The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and join together what has been smashed to pieces." (Which would presumably mean the end of history.) "But...

...sees one single catastrophe which relentlessly piles wreckage upon wreckage, and hurls them before his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole that which has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has gotten caught in his wings,...

...are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive...been smashed. But a storm is blowing from paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence diat the angel can no longer dose them. This storm...

...are staring. his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive...been smashed. But a storm is blowing from paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm...

...directness — as a machine that has definitively malfunctioned: The face [of the angel of history] is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe that keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to...

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...how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive chains of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps...been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught- in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm...

...history the most significant of whose theses on history Walter Benjamin explains thus: His face is tinned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events,...he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling ruin upon ruin and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and...

...grounded. Those moments when men and women believed themselves to be Benjamin's Angel of History who "would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed",26 moments of illusory Faustian omnipotence, and certainty are the dangerous moments of supposedly...

...are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive...been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm...