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050			_aHM101 B859 2014
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100			_aPreciosa Regina Ang De Joya
245		0	_aA Vision of Hell: Walter Benjamin's Angelus Novus and the Catastrophe of Progress
264			_aQuezon City: _bAteneo De Manila University< _cc2014
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338			_bvolume _avolume _2volume
505			_aABSTRACT: Before his untimely death in 1940, the German philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote an essay, entitled Theses on the Philosophy of History, marking his recovery from the shock of the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact. This study reflects on the philosophical and historical significance of this essay, unraveling Benjamin's critique of Marxism as a critique of progress. Progress, which the angel of history sees as a storm coming from paradise, has caused a growing pile of rubble of historical blunders and environmental disasters. This uncritical submission to progress, however, can be seen not only in the blind confidence of the communists and the social democrats towards Marxist teleology, but also in historicism, which reduces the writing of history to a form of disaster: a heaping up of information that forgets the memory of enslaved ancestors, thus losing its weak, Messianic power.
526			_aF
650			_aPhilosophy -- Marxism -- History
655			_aphilosophy and humanities
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