The angel of history
Subtitle: Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem
By: Stéphane Mosès ; translated by Barbara Harshav.
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780804741163; 9780804741170
Subjects: Rosenzweig, Franz, -- 1886-1929; Benjamin, Walter, -- 1892-1940; Scholem, Gershom Gerhard, -- 1897-1982; History -- Philosophy; Philosophy, Jewish -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Work titles: Ange de l'histoire.
Notes: "Originally published in French in 1992 under the title L'Ange de l'histoire: Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem 1992, Editions du Seuil."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Franz Rosenzweig : the other side of the West; title: Dissimilation; title: Hegel taken literally; title: Utopia and redemption; title: Walter Benjamin : the three models of history; title: Metaphors of origin : ideas, names, stars; title: The esthetic model; title: The angel of history; title: Gershem Scholem : the secret history; title: The paradoxes of messianism; title: Kafka, Freud, and the crisis of tradition; title: Language and secularization.