| Jürgen Habermas - Philosophy - 1985 - 248 pages
...one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence diat the angel... | |
| Kevin McMahon - History - 1988 - 276 pages
...one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel... | |
| Jonathan Ngate - African fiction (French) - 1988 - 212 pages
...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 make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel... | |
| Dick Hebdige - Art - 1988 - 284 pages
...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”, 2 ° moments of illusory Faustian omnipotence, and certainty are the dangerous moments of supposedly... | |
| Stephen Eric Bronner, Douglas Kellner - Philosophy - 1989 - 332 pages
...one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel... | |
| Gary Smith - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 332 pages
...the ninth thesis by no means represents the Messiah. This is unmistakably audible in the sentence, "The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed" (697) [author's italics]. Especially in Theses II and XVII, Benjamin cedes this motif—the truly messianic... | |
| Andreas Huyssen, David Bathrick - Education - 1989 - 258 pages
...one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel... | |
| Robert Britt Horwitz - Business & Economics - 1989 - 430 pages
...one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel... | |
| Michael Greenstein - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 252 pages
...one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what had been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence... | |
| Eric L. Santner - History - 1990 - 220 pages
...one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel... | |
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