To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.


Illuminations (ed. Random House, 2011) - ISBN: 9781407085500

Walter Benjamin Quotes

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it the way it really was...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a...

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it the way it really was...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a...

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it the way it really was...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a...

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it the way it really was...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a...