The angel of history : Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem /
St�ephane Mos�es ; translated by Barbara Harshav.
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
- 193 p. ;
- Cultural memory in the p .
"Originally published in French in 1992 under the title L`Ange de l`histoire: Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem 1992, Editions du S
Includes bibliographical refer
Franz Rosenzweig : the other side of the West -- Dissimilation -- Hegel taken literally -- Utopia and redemption -- Walter Benjamin : the three models of history -- Metaphors of origin : ideas, names, stars -- The Aesthetic model -- The angel of history -- Gershem Scholem : the secret history -- The paradoxes of messianism -- Kafka, Freud, and the crisis of tradition -- Language and seculariz