{"id":1565,"date":"2020-09-18T16:05:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T14:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2020-09-20T08:20:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T06:20:49","slug":"angelus-novus-walter-benjamin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/angelus-novus-walter-benjamin\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelus Novus (Walter Benjamin)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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C\u2019\u00e8 un quadro di Klee che s\u2019intitola\u00a0Angelus Novus. Vi si trova un angelo che sembra in atto di allontanarsi da qualcosa su cui fissa lo sguardo. Ha gli occhi spalancati, la bocca aperta, le ali distese. L\u2019angelo della storia deve avere questo aspetto. Ha il viso rivolto al passato. Dove\u00a0ci\u00a0appare una catena di eventi,\u00a0egli\u00a0vede una sola catastrofe, che accumula senza tregua rovine su rovine e le rovescia ai suoi piedi. Egli vorrebbe ben trattenersi, destare i morti e ricomporre l\u2019infranto. Ma una tempesta spira dal paradiso, che si \u00e8 impigliata nelle sue ali, ed \u00e8 cos\u00ec forte che egli non pu\u00f2 chiuderle. Questa tempesta lo spinge irresistibilmente nel futuro, a cui volge le spalle, mentre il cumulo delle rovine sale davanti a lui al cielo. Ci\u00f2 che chiamiamo il progresso, \u00e8\u00a0questa\u00a0tempesta.<\/p>\n

Walter Benjamin<\/p>\n

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Es gibt ein Bild von Klee, das Angelus Novus hei\u00dft. Ein Engel ist darauf dargestellt, der aussieht, als w\u00e4re er im Begriff, sich von etwas zu entfernen, worauf er starrt. Seine Augen sind aufgerissen, sein Mund steht offen und seine Fl\u00fcgel sind ausgespannt. Der Engel der Geschichte mu\u00df so aussehen. Er hat das Antlitz der Vergangenheit zugewendet. Wo eine Kette von Begebenheiten vor uns erscheint, da sieht er eine einzige Katastrophe, die unabl\u00e4ssig Tr\u00fcmmer auf Tr\u00fcmmer h\u00e4uft und sie ihm vor die F\u00fc\u00dfe schleudert. Er m\u00f6chte wohl verweilen, die Toten wecken und das Zerschlagene zusammenf\u00fcgen. Aber ein Sturm weht vom Paradiese her, der sich in seinen Fl\u00fcgeln verfangen hat und so stark ist, da\u00df der Engel sie nicht mehr schlie\u00dfen kann. Dieser Sturm treibt ihn unaufhaltsam in die Zukunft, der er den R\u00fccken kehrt, w\u00e4hrend der Tr\u00fcmmerhaufen vor ihm zum Himmel w\u00e4chst. Das, was wir den Fortschritt nennen, ist dieser Sturm.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Walter Benjamin<\/span><\/p>\n

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There is a painting by Klee called Angelus Novus. It shows an angel who seems about to move away from something he stares at. His eyes are wide, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how the angel of history must look. His face is turned toward the past. Where a chain of events appears before us, he sees on single catastrophe, which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it at his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise and has got caught in his wings; it is so strong that the angel can no longer close them. This storm drives him irresistibly into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows toward the sky. What we call progress is this storm.<\/span><\/p>\n

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