 | Eugene Lunn - 1984 - 348 pages
...ancestors, more than liberated grandchildren, must guide the "avenging" work of the "last enslaved class."'" To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was" (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger . . . which affects... | |
 | Andreas Huyssen - 1986 - 260 pages
...wishes to retain that image of the past which unexpectedly appears to man singled out by history at a moment of danger. The danger affects both the content of the tradition and its receivers. The same threat hangs over both: that of becoming a tool of the ruling classes. In every... | |
 | Stan Mumford - 1989 - 304 pages
...consciousness, just as they struggle with one another in surrounding social reality (Bakhtin 1981:245-48). To articulate the past historically does not mean...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger (Benjamin 19 IN THIS WORK I have examined the rituals of village lamas in a Tibetan... | |
 | Slavoj Žižek - 1989 - 262 pages
...certainly is an appropriation of the past which is 'interested', biased towards the oppressed class: 'To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was" ' (Thesis VI) . . . 'Not man or men but the struggling, oppressed class itself is the depository of... | |
 | Stephen Eric Bronner, Douglas Kellner - 1989 - 332 pages
...of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.) To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was" (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger. Historical materialism... | |
 | Joanne Rappaport - 1990 - 274 pages
...Benjamin (1968: 255) gives us a clue as to the meaning of history outside of the walls of Academe : To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it " the way it really was" (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger... The danger affects... | |
 | Mitchell Robert Breitwieser - 1990 - 244 pages
...midst of the society of the example and a resurrection of Puritanism's dangerous memory. Benjamin: To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was" (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at moments of danger. Historical materialism... | |
 | Dale M. Bauer, Susan Jaret McKinstry - 1991 - 270 pages
...intersubjective relations through which it is inscribed are under threat. Barker, like Benjamin, understands that "To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it 'the way it really was' (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger."2" This essay,... | |
 | David B. Downing, Susan Bazargan - 1991 - 368 pages
...History is not the representation of the absolute. Rather it is the self-representation of the present. "To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it 'the way it really was' (Ranke)" ("Theses" VI, 255). Rather it means to capture memory and investigate its use in the present.... | |
 | Stephen David Ross - 1992 - 274 pages
...judging is always annihilating. (OADHL, p. 38) Benjamin speaks directly to Nietzsche's forgetfulness: "To articulate the past historically does not mean...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger." 38 He adds to superhistory's retribution the theme of redemption: "The Messiah... | |
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... the way it really was' (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger. 
