Summary
Manfred Osten: "Everything is velocipheric" or Goethe's discovery of slowness
Contribution to modernity by a classicist in the 21st century
The experience of modern unlimitedly accelerated life as a sign of progress Walter Benjamin reduced (in his interpretation of Paul Klee's painting Angelus Novus as the angel of history) to the following formula: "Where we are faced with a single chain of events, we are actually faced with a continuous series of catastrophes behind which pile of ruins. He would certainly like to put an end to it, to wake up the dead and make a whole. But the wind that is entangled in his wings is blowing so hard that the angel is no longer able to fold his wings. That wind is driving him irresistibly into the future, while the pile of ruins in front of him grows into the sky."
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